As mentioned in my previous post about “actually agile”, I recently talked with Craig Andera for the Think Relevance podcast. He and I talked about many topics of interest to the readers of my blog including agile development, simulation, Datomic, Clojure, Alan Kay and a few projects that have occupied my time lately. Among them is a book that I’ve been working on1 with Russ Olsen about the past, present and future of programming languages. At the moment I’m referring to it as “100 Languages in 100 Weeks”,2 but this is only a working title and in no way a final option.

I’ll post more information about the book moving forward as it becomes more fully formed.

Wish me luck.

:F

  1. ~100 pages of first-draft material, some source code, and another ~50 pages of outline, hundreds of pages of notes and another ~20 pages of footnotes right now.↩︎

  2. And this working title does not indicate that we’re writing a book like Bruce Tate’s wonderful “7 Languages in 7 Weeks”.↩︎