Elliotte Rusty Harold talks with Bill Venners about strict versus forgiving XML parsing, dealing with outlier data, and growing schemas organically.

Yukihiro Matsumoto, the creator of the Ruby programming language, talks with Bill Venners about Ruby's design philosophy, including design imperfection, the danger of orthogonality, and the importance of the human in computer endeavors.

James Gosling talks with Bill Venners about how to build solid apps, organize your catch clauses, scale checked exceptions, and deal with failure.

Anders Hejlsberg, the lead C# architect, talks with Bruce Eckel and Bill Venners about why C# instance methods are non-virtual by default and why programmers must explicitly indicate an override.

Elliotte Rusty Harold talks with Bill Venners about the readability of XML documents and the code that processes them.

Anders Hejlsberg, the lead C# architect, talks with Bruce Eckel and Bill Venners about delegates and C#'s first class treatment of component concepts.

Elliotte Rusty Harold talks with Bill Venners about the benefits of a having single decision maker for an API design and insights gained through writing examples that use the API.

Anders Hejlsberg, the lead C# architect, talks with Bruce Eckel and Bill Venners about versionability and scalability issues with checked exceptions.

Elliotte Rusty Harold talks with Bill Venners about the API design principles that guided the design of the XOM (XML Object Model) API, including enforcement of invariants, information hiding for simplicity, and not using assertions for air bags.

Anders Hejlsberg, the lead C# architect, talks with Bruce Eckel and Bill Venners about the process used by the team that designed C#, and the relative merits of usability studies and good taste in language design.

Elliotte Rusty Harold talks with Bill Venners about the API design principles that guided the design of the XOM (XML Object Model) API.

Bruce Eckel talks with Bill Venners about how Python's minimal finger typing allows programmers to focus on the task, not the tool, generating a productivity that makes more projects feasible.

Elliotte Rusty Harold talks with Bill Venners about the design lessons he learned from the JDOM API.

Bruce Eckel talks with Bill Venners about why he prefers Python's latent type checking and techie control of language evolution.