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LL4 Program and Abstracts

The program and abstracts for LL4 are available, including a presentation by LtU's own Anton van Straaten on reconciling REST and continuations. (Here's hoping LL4 will be webcast as in previous years.)

Python, metaprogramming, and macros

A nice blogpost from Ian Bicking.

Jon Udell: interview with Ward Cunningham and Jack Greenfield

Jon Udell's interview with Ward Cunningham and Jack Greenfield might help understand Microsoft's methodology of software factories and DSLs.

The interview is available as a 54 minute MP3 file. The notion of language as abstraction mechanism and explanation of the part played by DSLs appear towards the second half of the conversation.