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NewCrafts 2017 Conference Opening
The document summarizes the NewCrafts conference happening on May 18-19 in Paris. It provides information about the conference dates and location, and encourages attendees to use the hashtag #ncrafts and follow @ncraftsconf on Twitter. The bulk of the document consists of quotes from 1972 by Edsger Dijkstra discussing challenges with software development and the need for better programming practices and tools. It promotes discussing history, philosophy, and innovation to improve software development.
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- 1. NewCrafts 2017 Opening May, 18-19, Paris @rhwy@petervaneven@__max__ tweet with #ncrafts follow @ncraftsconf
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- 5. 5 As Software developers, wetry to solve problems … but most of the times software is seen as the problem, not the solution! … why?
- 6. 6 « As long asthere were no machines, programming is no problem at all »
- 7. 7 « Only a fewyears ago, the talk about a software crisis was blasphemy. .. and by now, it is generally recognised that the design of any large sophisticated system is going to be a very difficult job. »
- 8. 8 « If software wereto continue to be the same clumsy and expensive process as it is now, things would get completely out of the balance » « we must learn to program an order of magnitude more effectively! »
- 9. 9 «If you wantmore effective programmers, they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with.» « The programmer should let correctness proof and program grow hand in hand. »
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- 11. 11 « The purposeof abstracting is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.» more/better abstractions?
- 12. 12 « the intellectualeffort needed to conceive or to understand a program need not grow more than proportional to program length » Simplicity!
- 13. 13 « • provided thatwe approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, • provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, • provided that we respect the intrinsic limitations of the human mind, • and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers We shall do a much better programming job » The Humble Programmers manifesto
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- 19. History philosophy better practices/tools innovate … and that’swhy we are here 🙃
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- 23. 23 a big thankyou to all speakers!
- 24. 24 Go talk topeople! Don’t fear to miss something xäxÜçà{|Çz |á ÜxvÉÜwxw uç ÉâÜ tãxáÉÅx ÑtÜàÇxÜ iStream
- 25. 25 a big thankyou to our benevolent slaves students
- 26. 26 a last thankfor staff hostesses & conference place team
- 27. Don’t forget the party& meetups around 18:30 … and yes, new crafted beers!
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- 29. Share!* #ncrafts @ncraftsconf * maybe therewill be some prizes…
- 30. 30 THANK YOU ALLFOR YOUR LOVE AND TRUST ENJOY THE CONFERENCE!