Name: Kevlin Henney presents: The Past, Present and Future of Programming Languages
Start: 2025-05-21T18:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-05-21T20:30:00+01:00
Location: RWE Supply & Trading

We're excited to bring you another session and remain grateful to our generous sponsor, RWE Supply & Trading, for providing us with the fantastic venue and supporting our event.

**Kevlin Henney presents: The Past, Present and Future of Programming Languages**
Programming languages are a halfway house between the metal and the mind, a bridge between the world of circuits and the world of applications, the engineered and the social. Programming languages are the medium through which developers codify systems and fragments. In each programming language is embedded a philosophy (or many) of how to think about code, how to organise thoughts, how to design. Programming languages also define skillsets, ecosystems, jobs, loyalties and communities.

When we think of software and technology we often think in terms of progress and rapid change. Programming languages, however, typically move at a far slower pace. Mainstream languages are still embracing ideas that are decades old. Constructs that developers welcome as new to their language of choice are often older than the developers themselves. And over all this hangs the question, what of the future? How will current trends, from FOSS to LLMs, shape programming languages and their use? In this talk, we will take a tour of the past, present and future of programming languages.

About Kevlin Henney:
Kevlin is an independent consultant, trainer, speaker and writer. His development interests and work with companies covers programming, practice and people. He has contributed to open- and closed-source codebases, been a columnist for a number of magazines and sites and has been on far too many committees (it has been said that "a committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled"). He is co-author of two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series, editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know and co-editor of 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know.

**Agenda:**
6.00pm - Arrival, Food & Drink, and networking
6.30pm - Presentation
8:00pm - Drinks and networking
8:30pm - Event concludes

We look forward to welcoming you to this engaging and enlightening event. If you have any questions or would like to propose future events or speaking opportunities, please contact us through Meetup or email us at [swindonsoftware@gmail.com](http://mailto:swindonsoftware@gmail.com).

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Now that all of our renewable activities are integrated within RWE, RWE Supply & Trading can increasingly offer customised products and services from a single source, such as a combination of renewables plus control energy or conventional electricity. We are also able to draw on our considerable experience in the marketing of electricity from renewables. Deutsche Bahn (German Rail), for instance, is one of the key accounts choosing to purchase green power from RWE Supply & Trading.

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