Programming Language Gurus Converge on 'Curry On' Conference (curry-on.org)

Videos are now online from this week's Curry On conference, which incuded talks by programming pioneers Larry Wall and Matthias Felleisen, as well as speakers from Google, Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, and Oracle. Dave Herman from Mozilla Research also talked about building an open source research lab, while Larry Wall's keynote was titled "It's the End of the World as We Know It, and I Feel Fine."

Billing itself as a non-profit conference about programming languages and emerging computer-industry challenges, this year's installment included talks about Java, Rust, Scala, Perl, Racket, Clojure, Rascal, Go and Oden. Held in a different European city each year, the annual conference hopes to provoke an open conversation between academia and the larger technology industry.

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Re:Fascinating. All of TWO relevant languages

[gweihir]

Just my take. That is why I am back to C for anything but glue-logic. All that clutter more "modern" languages add is just not worth it. True, I currently use Python3 as glue, and the C I write is somewhat OO as it is Python modules, but that is it. Most "revolutionary" trends in programming languages are just not fit for actual production use.

Of course, most programmers are not fit to write productive code either (the utter crap I see when doing code-reviews is incredible), but that is another story.