Software Engineering Radio: Interview Dave Thomas

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Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus Guests: Dave Thomas Recording venue: OOPSLA 2007 This episode is an interview with Dave Thomas (OTI Dave or Smalltalk Dave, not PragDave). We started our discussion with a look at the (non-)success of objects and components. W...

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Podcast (MP3): Download

Hosts: Markus 

Guests:

Dave Thomas

 

Recording venue:

OOPSLA 2007

This episode is an interview with Dave Thomas (OTI Dave or Smalltalk Dave, not PragDave). We started our discussion with a look at the (non-)success of objects and components. We then discussed some history behine Eclipse and Dave's role in OTI. We then compared Smalltalk and Ruby and looked at the promises of small and powerful languages such as Lisp. We also discussed the role of (static) type systems and the role of tool support for languages.

We then switched gears and looked at what is necessary to scale agile development to the level of large organizations
and how techniques from lean production and manufacturing as well as product management can play an important role.

In the last part of the interview we looked at the state of research today, and especially the relationship between industry and academia in this area.

We concluded the interview with Dave's opinion on what it takes to be a good developer.

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