Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas's Blog

Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas is a Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems. His general area is in distributed systems, with a specialization in mobility and security. He has spoken on a variety of technical topics at conferences around the world and teaches graduate classes in the evening. He publishes a standards column and represents Sun at a number of standards bodies. He also serves in the organizing committee for several industry-wide technical conferences. Rags brings with him about 15 years of software development experience. He worked for Digital Equipment Corporation before joining Sun. He has worked on several technology areas, including internals of VMS, Unix and NT. Rags holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Center of Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He enjoys running, hiking and eating, especially spicy food.

The Script Bowl

I just moderated a panel with the scripting gurus. Guillaume LaForge of Groovy, Charles Nutter of JRuby, Frank Wierzbicki of Jython and Jorge Ortiz representing Scala.

The distinguished panel of judges were Roberto Chinnici, Ola Bini and Carol McDonald and was moderated by me.

It was a fun and interactive session and I got some good feedback from the attendees.

The attendees voted real-time for the best performance ala Idol style via SMS and the results are here.

View Results of the Script Bowl

Speakers A, B, C and D are Groovy, JRuby, Jython and Scala respectively.

Lots of real cool demos and insights into the language. I am impressed by the conciseness and power of the languages. Lots of fun!

Thanks to Jerry Tao for the voting hardware and software.

Rags

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