Microsoft's "Oslo" initiative aims to make it easier for developers, for IT professionals, and for ordinary computer users to define, share, and reason about the data representations that underpin software, services, and business logic. In this conversation, Doug Purdy and host Jon Udell discuss modeling, Smalltalk, domain-specific languages, and the ongoing quest for better ways to reduce the impedance mismatch between humans and computers.
Douglas Purdy is a product unit manager (Silicon Valley translation: Director of Engineering) at Microsoft working on next-generation languages and tools to broaden the franchise of people building applications. His vision is to “to make everyone a programmer (even if they don’t know it)”.
Previously, Douglas was the group program manager for the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF/Indigo), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF/WinOE), ASP.Net Web Services (ASMX) and .Net Remoting teams. Douglas has been with Microsoft, on and off, since 1998 where he has worked in consulting, evangelism and engineering.
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