5 Languages in 50 minutes

Coming up at the Wellington .NET user group:

Owen Evans presents 5 languages in 50 minutes

David Thomas (of The Pragmatic Programmer fame) promoted that as software developers we should be learning a language a year. They say French is the language of love and Italian is apparently the language of diving gratuitously during football matches.

Well, programming languages all try to serve a purpose and fill a need too (they aren’t all just created for academic curiosity).

Owen Evans, Senior Developer at Xero, takes on the challenge of introducing you to 5 unsung development languages (not .Net languages) in the hope of promoting the idea that we can each pick up something new and learn and evolve as software developers.
The aim is not to be masters but to understand better the ideas different language constructs present to us so we can fold them into the day to day development we undertake as professionals.
5 languages in 50 minutes? its a stretch goal but i think we can make it.

Owen's a smart guy with a laid back and fun style of presenting. He gave this presentation at the recent 2010 MS Communities Code Camp, managing to both entertain and educate. I won't give away which languages he's going to cover, you'll just have to come along and find out.

The event will be at the usual place: Xero, Level 1, Old Bank Arcade, 98 Customhouse Quay, Wellington from 6pm on the 15th August.