January 2012 - Bertrand Meyer's technology+ blog

Never design a language

17 April 201431 January 2012 by Bertrand Meyer

It is almost always a bad idea to design a language (for example, a DSL), and I am not even sure anymore why I wrote “almost”.

Concurrency seminars

17 April 201423 January 2012 by Bertrand Meyer

A set of one-day concurrency seminars organized in the US and Europe in the next few months.

Webinar today: the Varieties of Loop Invariants

17 April 201413 January 2012 by Bertrand Meyer

I did not have time to complete my Monday post this week; it will be for next Monday (title: Never design a language). In the meantime, here is the announcement for today’s Saint Petersburg Software Engineering seminar , which can be followed live at http://sel.ifmo.ru/seminar/live (19:30 Saint Petersburg time, meaning 16:30 Zurich/Paris, 7:30 PDT on … Read more

Various interviews

17 April 20142 January 2012 by Bertrand Meyer

Over the past few months I have given a few interviews to Russian news outlets on technology- and software-related issues. Here are the links I have. In September, Mikhail Saprykin interviewed me [1] for Kommersant (the main Russian business daily) on a question that worries everyone in technology and academia: the brain drain. In early … Read more