Grady Booch at CMU

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Today I attended the most brilliant technical talk in ages. Grady Booch was at SEI and boy was he good! He can be called the founders of software abstractions and the thinking on software architectures. His prediction is that next generation there would be more emphasis on frameworks and less on actual coding. I can see that happening. I also like the fact that he acknowledged that one would need something more robust than UML. God knows maybe ABEL groups Acme language could become defacto standard. Maybe I could shoot into fame. This project is so cool. Wish I could get into more of the modelling aspect though.
Another thing that baffles me still is complexity of algorithms. Even here most people are not very clear about the nlogn notation. So It's fast but proove it. Lets see maybe suddenly it would dawn on me. Anyway none of what I code is that fast. Imagine o(n). I'm sure those google folks have that solved. Phew!!!!!!!!!!!

Comments

Momma J said…
whatever you're talking about is as good as being greek or latin to me!! how different professions can be :)

Glad u enjoyed the tech talk.
2:34 PM
Su said…
Er........Remember Rajini saying " Yes Yes Thank You" when people talk Too much english

Pri....yes yes THANK YOU !
8:02 AM
Anonymous said…
You may find the "introduction to complexity - notes" in my homepage http://staff.cdacmumbai.in/sasi useful

- Sasi
9:27 AM
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