Lang .NET 2006: Where are we going, where have we been?

Back in April, I mentioned that we’re going to have a compiler/languages symposium here in Redmond in August called Lang .NET 2006. Erik just announced that registrations are open, so sign up! As it turns out, I’m going to be giving a talk at the symposium. Ignore the title currently on the site (“Visual Basic 9”), here’s my current proposed title and abstract:

Visual Basic: Where are we going, where have we been?

With its third version on the .NET Framework, Visual Basic has largely completed the process of moving from its previous home in COM to its new home in the CLR. As a full-fledged language on a premier runtime platform, the inevitable next question is: Now what? This talk will discuss future directions for the Visual Basic language, both from a short-term and long-term perspective. Integrating data access and XML directly into the language is the next major challenge on the horizon, and we will cover some of the interesting insights and challenges that have arisen from this work. We’ll also take a look back at Visual Basic’s dynamic language and scripting roots to see what lessons from the past might be brought into future versions and look ahead at where the language might be headed in the long run.

I hope to see everyone there!

10 thoughts on “Lang .NET 2006: Where are we going, where have we been?”

Bill McCarthy June 19, 2006 at 9:34 pm

A WebCast of your talk would be really cool. Allow peoples from all over the world to hear where we are going 🙂

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Roger Jennings June 20, 2006 at 11:22 am

Just updated my post on Lang .NET requested by Erik. I gave it a Blinq spin, as you can see at:

http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/2006-lang-net-symposium-to-expose.html

–rj

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Sue June 25, 2006 at 3:31 pm

One thing I want to know about the future of VB is, now that I saw on TV that Mactintosh computers can now run Microsoft Windows, can VB be used on a Mac as well now? Does anyone know?

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Rob Windsor June 26, 2006 at 6:10 am

You can use Parallels (http://www.parallels.com) to run Windows on a MAC. My collegue, John Lam (http://www.iunknown.com), uses it for his daya-to-day development work.

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Sue June 30, 2006 at 2:08 pm

Thanks Rob. So does this software work to run Windows on older Macs as well, or just the new Macs. Is there any way to adapt VB for older Macs? What programming language did everyone use for Macs anyway? Is it C?

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Jhon August 14, 2006 at 5:20 am

hey Rob,

thanks for sharing it with everybody. Is he satisfied with its performance? any regrets you’d want to share?

thanks

j-

http://www.megasolutions.net

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Honda June 25, 2007 at 12:13 pm

you did not mention the programming languages used?