Reflections from 2013Agile conference - Part 1
I was at the Technical Path of 2013 Agile Conference on the 1st and 2nd of March and thought ill share my experience through a series of blogs on this. Instead of going session by session, I'll club them based on the context and provide a few pointers from them. The first session and the Keynote was by Venkat Subramaniam and was titled" It Could Be Heaven or It Could Be Hell: Pleasure and Peril of Being a Polyglot Programmer" The session focused on why as programmers, having a language arsenal of more than one language is beneficial. Venkat started off with a reference to Sapir-Whorf hypothesis which states "The principle of linguistic relativity holds that the structure of a language affects the ways in which its speakers conceptualize their world, i.e. their world view , or otherwise influences their cognitive processes ". Venkat emphasized the need for modern developers to know at least 3-4 languages and the potential benefits this know...