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OSCon 2008 Video: Language Inflection Point

Posted August 25th, 2008 by sheeri

Tim Bray of Sun Microsystems presents the keynote, "Language Inflection Point". Though Bray makes some good points, there is some awful music that makes some of his presentation hard to hear. He does lower the volume eventually....from the official conference description:

It would be nice to know which programming languages we’re all going to be programming in ten years from now. I really have no more idea than you, but I am paid to worry about this kind of thing. So I’m going to worry out loud about this for fifteen minutes, highlight some trends and influences, and probably leave you with more questions than answers.

Stream directly online at http://technocation.org/node/609/play or download the 181 Mb .wmv file at http://technocation.org/node/609/download.

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