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Spark IT 2010 off to a flying start in Bangalore

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PCQ Bureau
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BANGALORE, INDIA: Thursday early

morning itself, the air was very warm

at Indian Institute of Science here. Aspiring developers flowed like a

beautiful stream towards the one of the proudest establishments of the

city even as PCQuest editor Anil Chopra and Cyber Media India senior

vice president Anil Kumar set the ball rolling at Spark IT 2010 with

their welcome addresses.






Sparking off the unending flow of knowledge, Dr Venkat Subramaniam,
founder Agile Developer Inc., took the audience for an informative trip

through the nuances of the software programming. He spoke under the

title, 'It could be hell or it could be heaven.






Insisting on the necessity of becoming a good black swan amongst the
common white ones, Subramaniam urged the aspiring developers to be

unique and try to write their codes differently. He insisted that

programmers change the way they code in primary languages and start

developing applications using multiple languages.






When you switch the way in which you
write codes, your design is

heavily influenced by the language you know. Using just one type of

language is of significant disadvantage. Multiple languages make you

think and perceive differently. Using one language helps in problem

solving on the technicality only in the same language. It's not easy

for one language - which is 15-20 years old - to be effective in all

areas
, Subramaniam pointed out.






According to him, people assume Java to be relentlessly hopeful as it
was simpler than C++, but Java features are becoming complex with less

benefit.






Java has become the weakest link in
the ecosystem. There has been

language explosion in the past six to seven years. There are around 200

languages in Java virtual machines. You got to pick and choose what

makes sense for you
, he further said.






For Subramaniam, it could be heaven if one takes the advantage and be a
polyglot programmer by using multiple languages for different layers of

languages or layers within the languages. Otherwise? It's understood to

be hell!






The developer conference is being conducted jointly by CIOL and PCQuest.





To read all
the tweets from the event, just search for #SparkIT on Twitter.

















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