THE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE CRISIS

1. Nick Hodge
Professional Geek, Microsoft
@nickhodgeMSFT

3. INTEL (PATENT PENDING)
4195835
3145727

4. ALL UR
2.2250738585072011 x 10-308
BELONG TO US

6. Lady Ada Lovelace
Ria Debets (& others)

7. Y2K => COBOL

8. GEN X

10. C#? JAVA?

11. JAVASCRIPT ECMASCRIPT $EVILSCRIPT
• ECMA-262
• ISO 16262
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bs/

12. TODAY: DYNAMIC LANGUAGES
PHP
($ what?)
Python
(the one true language!)
Ruby
(a cult?)

13. TODAY: FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGES
Haskell
(APL >> ALGOL68 for 21st C!)
Clojure
(braces were cool in the 70s)
Ruby
(a cult?)

14. PROGRAMMING IS HARD.
LET’S GO SHOPPING!

15. QUANTUM COMPUTING

17. ZOMG!!1! PONIES!1!!

20. LOLCODE: HELLOWORLD!!1!
OHAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
VISIBLE “HAI WORLD!1!”
KTHXBAI

21. LOLCODE: COUNT!!!1!
HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
I HAS A VAR
IM IN YR LOOP
UP VAR!!1
VISIBLE VAR
IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10?
KTHXBYE
IM OUTTA YR LOOP
KTHXBYE

23. CODE REPOSITORY, BUG REPORTING

24. LOLCODE
ITZ TEH FUTUREZ!
SRSLY
http://lolcode.com/