Lang.NEXT 2012 Sessions (HD) Podcast
1) Teaching with Grace
We are engaged in the design of a new object-oriented educational programming language called Grace. Our motivation is frustration with available languages, none of which seems to be suited to our tar...Show More
2) John Cook: Why and How People Use R
R is a strange, deeply flawed language that nevertheless has an enthusiastic and rapidly growing user base. What about R accounts for its popularity in its niche? What can language designers learn fro...Show More
3) Walter Bright: The D Programming Language
The D Programming Language combines modeling power, modern convenience, and native efficiency into one powerful language. D embodies many new ideas in programming languages along with traditional prov...Show More
4) Luke Hoban: ECMAScript 6
The next iteration of the ECMAScript standard, expected to be ECMAScript 6, has been making solid progress since the completion of ES5 in 2009. Targeting standardization in 2013, ES6 is on track to b...Show More
5) Julia
Julia is a dynamic language in the tradition of Lisp, Perl, Python and Ruby. It aims to advance expressiveness and convenience for scientific and technical computing beyond that of environments like ...Show More
6) Andrei Alexandrescu: Three Unlikely Successful Features of D
Designing a programming language has a strong subjective component. There are features - such as type and property inference - that many would agree are useful, subject to proper language integration....Show More
7) Herb Sutter: (Not Your Father’s) C++
What makes ISO C++11 "feel like a new language"? What things that we know about past C++ do we need to unlearn? Why is C++ designed the way it is – historically, and in C+&...Show More
8) Gilad Bracha: Dart - A Well Structured Web Programming Language
Dart is a new programming language being developed at Google, designed to support web programming. Dart is a purely object-oriented, class-based single inheritance optionally typed language with ac...Show More
9) Going Deeper with Project Roslyn: Exposing the C# and VB compiler’s code analysis
Until now, the VB and C# compilers have been used as black boxes. You put text in, and you get out a binary file. In our long-lead project, codename "Roslyn," we are changing that dynamic by building...Show More
Going Deeper with Project Roslyn: Exposing the C# and VB compiler’s code analysis
44:28 | Apr 14th, 2012
10) Lang.NEXT 2012 Expert Panel: Native Languages
Native programming languages panel hosted by Martyn Lovell.