GOTO Aarhus is the place for the new tricks in town:
Gilad Bracha and Lars Bak announced Dart in Aarhus, Denmark about a year ago as a “new programming language for structured web programming”. Yesterday, Anders Hejlsberg, once again in Aarhus, Denmark, announced Microsoft’s new programming language, TypeScript, “a language for application-scale JavaScript development”. Obviously, there’s something about the water in Aarhus that causes language designers to want to tackle the problem of large scale web development.
[ http://news.dartlang.org/2012/10/the-dart-team-welcomes-typescript.html ]
Now GOTO is not for script-kiddies or #programming for dummies” – it is applied computer science. Formerly the original name was JAOO being “Java Object Oriented” – but now the topics are more various, but still cutting edge. TypeScript has made headlines in both http://arstechnica.com and http://www.readwriteweb.com.
See also:
- What you have learned becomes irrelevant
- Work Smarter, not Harder
- The Secret Scandinavian Ingredient
[Disclaimer: I had press access to GOTO-Arhus2012 on behalf on GOTOCON]
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