Sunday, May 24, 2015

Jun'15: Essential Languages: Nim, Scala, Python (O'Reilly)

Tuesday, June 2, 2015  /  10:00am – 1:00pm PT

http://www.oreilly.com/pub/e/3420

A solid grasp of programming language's core concepts is essential to writing concise, optimized and secure code. The three presenters today will give you insight into three different languages that could be the key to your next project. Andreas Rumpf, (creator of Nim) is going to outline the basics and detail when and why Nim is the right choice. Jason Swartz will talk about logging services, critical to highly available applications with Scala. Matt Harrison will round out the event with a session on how to use Python well when your project call for functional programming.