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Titanic, COBOL and the 100 Year Platform

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Summary

Ola Bini discusses what features a long lasting platform should have, and takes a look at Java to see if it can be that platform.

Bio

Ola Bini works as a language geek for ThoughtWorks in Chicago. He is one of the JRuby core developers and have been involved in JRuby development since 2006. Ola has created two languages: Ioke and Seph. He’s author of Practical JRuby on Rails Projects and co-author of Using JRuby for the Pragmatic Programmers, a contributor to many open source projects, and a member of the JSR292 Expert Group.

About the conference

GOTO Aarhus is the enterprise software development conference designed for team leads, architects, and project management and is organized by developers, for developers. As software developers and architects ourselves, we wanted to craft the ultimate conference. The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community, staged in an intimate environment needed to support as much learning and networking as possible.http://gotocon.com/

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Mar 22, 2012

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  • In a hundred years...

    by Faisal Waris,

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    we may not need a general purpose programming language as humans will have evolved to express all needs as pure mathematical expressions.

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