A Possible Future of Software Development

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Google Tech Talks
July, 25 2007

ABSTRACT

This talk begins with an overview of software development at Adobe and a look at industry trends towards systems built around object oriented frameworks; why they "work", and why they ultimately fail to deliver quality, scalable, software. We'll look at a possible alternative to this future, combining generic programming with declarative programming to build high quality, scalable systems.


Speaker: Sean Parent
Sean Parent is a principal scientist at Adobe Systems and engineering manager of the Adobe Software Technology Lab. One of his team's current projects is the Adobe Source Libraries

Channel: People & Blogs
Uploaded: May 20, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Author: googletechtalks

Length: 01:01:33
Rating: 4.30
Views: 15949

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Video Comments:
craiggybear (September 14, 2008 at 7:25 am)
So, Sean, this is why Adobe products are riddled with more holes than a sieve these days?
Marascreams2210 (August 23, 2008 at 10:38 pm)
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MultipleEFP (June 17, 2008 at 3:14 pm)
Software companies and enegenerig in Russia is growng every day !

Investments in russian Software is a good idea !
vicaya (May 29, 2008 at 4:54 am)
It's still the same old approach to software engineering though: look at a class of specific problems to see if it can be solved by a more general solution, which is basically a reusable library. By properly limiting the scope and expressiveness of the library via a DSL, you reduce the probability of errors. Somebody still have to have solved the class of problems before one can embark on writing such generic libraries.

There is just no silver bullet in software engineering.
seanparent65 (May 31, 2008 at 3:50 am)
As with geometry, there is no royal road to computer science. It is a challenge to the industry to learn to collect our knowledge into (re)usable components and the responsibility of every professional engineer and scientist to contribute.
vicaya (May 31, 2008 at 5:15 am)
Agreed. The video is a great case study on how to build a quality reusable library/framework.

Kudos to you and everyone involved to make ASL open source in MIT license. I'm one of the fortunate (paid) open source developers as well.

My original comment meant to point out that the title of the video might be a bit misleading to people who're expecting new methodologies and/or new tools/languages.
fasteez (May 23, 2008 at 6:19 pm)
really important matter.

how to talk about the future of things that should be mainstream for 50 years :)