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Announcing The Emerging Languages Camp at OSCONAs new problems in computing arise, new languages are being created to help tackle those problems. We want to bring together programming language creators, researchers, and enthusiasts to share goals, experiences, and challenges. Our goal is to advance the state of the art in programming language design and implementation.
Alex Payne (Twitter, Programing Scala author) and Brady Forrest (O'Reilly/Ignite) are the co-organizers. You can contact us at emerginglangs@gmail.com. We look forward to answering any questions you may have. The camp is available to all OSCON attendees while seats are available. We are inviting the creators and maintainers of a number of relatively young programming languages, for starters. If there is anyone that you feel should attend, please let us know. Here is the current list attending language creators:
Melvin Smith - COLA
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Comments: 1
Dan [26 July 2010 05:00 AM]
Congratulations for setting up a useful camp. Just wanted to point out there are already a plethora of programming languages out there ... and now we're seeing another couple dozen emerging ... as far as I know the very reason these new languages emerge because of one or both of the following reasons:
- There are so many languages with non-overlapping features that you have to learn different languages to do different tasks efficiently
- There is dissatisfaction about the programming languages one knows so one wants to develop a new language to address that dissatisfaction
the only way both reasons can be dealt with if all these great minds with new language ideas pool their resources to create 'one' language that serves the purpose ... in other words, the language technology should converge in a certain sense in order to have technological progress, but here we're witnessing unprecedented amounts of divergence