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Polyglot Programming and .NET - Lessons Learned with Ivan Towlson from Mindscape

Polyglot Programming and .NET - Lessons Learned with Ivan Towlson from Mindscape

Show #277 Jul 28 2011 plus show notes

Scott sits down with Ivan Towlson from Mindscape. They recently released Web Workbench to the community for free with support for LESS, SASS, and CoffeeScript. Interestingly, they used C#, F#, JavaScript and Ruby to create this app. Why was polyglot programming right for what them? Is it right for you?

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