Wednesday, March 17, 2004

Programmer veterans ponder past, future. Santa Clara, Calif. - A panel of programmers famous for applications such as VisiCalc and Excel and the Apple Computer Inc. Macintosh operating system mused on where programming has been and where it is going during a panel session at the Software Development Conference & Expo West 2004 event here on Tuesday. [InfoWorld: Top News] 7:18:58 PM     SD West 2004, Wednesday (morning) Update Went to two sessions this morning: the first was on .Net CLR internals, and the second was on the "Keyhole Problem". The CLR internals class was pretty good as the presenter was familiar with both the Java VM and the CLR, so was able to compare and contrast them. Short story: not that much difference. VMs have been around for a while, so there's nothing radical in there. The Keyhole talk was given by Scott Meyers and was very good (and funny). Basically, The Keyhole Problem is where software developers place "arbitrary restrictions on your ability to see or express something." He's got some good points. Check out the links for more info. 3:06:49 PM

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