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**Title**: Thriving in a Polyglot World\\
**Proposer**: [[2015:Burkhard Kloss]]\\
**Type**: Talk\\
**Duration**: 90 mins\\
**Description**: \\
In the past, systems were often largely written in a single language
(*). Integrating components written in different languages was relatvely
hard and uncommon. Now, interfaces between languages proliferate, wildly
different languages run the same virtual machine and are frequently
tightly integrated.\\
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Being monolingual is a no longer an option for most software developers.\\
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I plan to address some of the practical effects, and philosophical
implications of this situation, and draw parallels to multilingualism in
natural languages.\\
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(*) with maybe a bit of SQL and some system scripting for administration\\
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