[self-interest] oopsla / splash

dpharris at telus.net dpharris at telus.net
Sun Jan 16 14:18:14 UTC 2011


Here's the details: http://splashcon.org/2011/

I might make it down, since it is close. 

David



Quoting Thorsten Dittmar <thormar at me.com>:

> hello folks,
> 
> some of you will remember the good old days.... it was 1986 when oopsla was
> held the first time and it was in portland, oregon. this year it will be
> again in portland. my god, it is already 25 years ago. during the last 25
> years we saw a lot of goods things raising up, unfortunately most of them
> disappeared again. as most of us will agree, quality is not really the
> success factor in our business. maybe because of the fact that the people who
> are signing the bills, don't know anything about software development. how
> ever, the c++ guys now agree, that a garbage collector and JIT complier makes
> sense and they switched to java. in 25 years from now on their arrays will
> start at 1 and their sentences will end with a . and not with a ;  maybe they
> will call this language then redbull. we will see.
> 
> will anyone join the oopsla/splash in portland?
> 
> best regards
> 
> thorsten
> 
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