Talk Like A Duck

I’ll be giving a talk on “The Fall and Rise of Dynamic Languages” tomorrow at 7:00 p.m., at Red Hat HQ to the Raleigh Ruby Brigade.

Originally this was going to be a slightly revamped talk I gave some months ago to the local Agile group, with a slight change of emphasis from the history of agile methods to focus more on Ruby and other dynamic languages. It’s morphed into a completely different talk.

I plan to take a journey from the 1970s to today, and compare and contrast static and dynamic languages, and examine the recent resurgence in interest in dynamic languages and virtual machines. Along the way, I’ll have a few things to say about whether or not the recent news from RailsConf about MagLev is hype or reality.

If you’re in the area, please come by. Luckily the salmonella scare will probably keep the supply of (rotten) tomatoes to a minimum, so I should be fairly safe.