In this episode, Conor chats with Kevlin Henney about the past, present and future of programming languages and with Damian Maclennan about YOW! 2025!
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About the Guests:
Kevlin Henney is an independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer. His software development interests are in programming, practice and people. He has been a columnist for various magazines and websites. He is the co-author of A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages, two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series, and editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know and co-editor of 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know.
Damian Maclennan is a technologist, software architect, trainer, developer, cyclist, and musician in Brisbane, Australia. With over twenty five years experience building software and leading teams across many industries he has worked as a developer, software architect, consultant, troubleshooter, trainer and educator, and senior leader. Damian is the Technical Director of YOW! Conferences. Full bio here.
Show Notes
Date Recorded: 2025-12-11
Date Released: 2025-12-19
YOW Conferences!
ADSP Episode 190: C++, Python and More with Kevlin Henney
97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
The Past, Present and Future of Programming Languages - Kevlin Henney - ACCU 2025
The Past, Present & Future of Programming Languages • Kevlin Henney • GOTO 2024
TIOBE Language Rankings
RedMonk Language Rankings
Programming Language Rankings
Context Free YouTube
YOW! 2025 - Beyond Sonic Pi: Tau5 and the Art of Coding with AI - Sam Aaron
YOW! 2025 - Conceptualisation - Michael Feathers
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