The Lang .NET Symposium is a forum for discussion of programming languages, managed execution environments, compilers, multi-language libraries, and integrated development environments. It provides an excellent opportunity for programming language implementers and researchers from both industry and academia to meet and share their knowledge, experience, and suggestions for future research and development in the area of programming languages.
Democratizing The Cloud video
The web is rocking the world of developers. Our customers love consistency. They want to have the same rich experience, anywhere, any time, on any device. Our sales people love market share. They want no platform that cannot leverage their web services. We ourselves have embraced agile methods. We want to keep our options open as long as possible and create software incrementally by successive refactorings or declarative annotations. This surely sounds like a contradiction, another impossible triangle. The Dutch artist MC Escher once said "Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible", which inspired us to try to stretch the .NET framework to cover the Cloud. The ultimate goal is to make it possible for normal programmers to incrementally and seamlessly design, develop, and debug complex distributed applications using their favorite existing and unmodified .NET compiler and deploy these applications anywhere.
Erik Meijer
Erik Meijer is an architect in the Microsoft SQL server division where he currently works together with the Microsoft Visual C# and the Microsoft Visual Basic language design teams on data integration in programming languages and simplifying Web programming. Prior to joining Microsoft he was an associate professor at Utrecht University and adjunct professor at the Oregon Graduate Institute. Erik is one of the designers of the standard functional programming language Haskell98 and more recently the Cw language.