Language Trends

It's becoming evident that the imperative programming paradigm is showing some weakness over declarative and functional implementations.

Some months ago, André Cardoso, Telmo Felix and me started an internal group down at Link Consulting to tackle our "Language Trends" vision.

We had our first internal presentation today (mostly around C# and LINQ), with the following agenda:

• Declarative/functional over imperative advantages
• Current state of C#
• Trends
• The LINQ case-study

Part of this presentation was inspired by Anders Hejlsberg MIX07 DEV04 presentation - particularly the cool demos.

Yeap, this first approach was very Microsoft centric. The next one will definitely cover other areas.

Here are the slides, in Portuguese.