It's after lunch, and there's a panel session: Has the practice of software development improved? Looking back over the last couple of decades, the initial answer seems to be mostly no - the languages and tools haven't really moved forward all that much, outside of the automation of a few pieces of grunt work. If you look across the field, on productivity, predictablity (et. al.), it's all been small beans.

Rather than take notes on each part of the talk, I'm filming it - I'll post the video later on, after I have time to do some editing and preparation on it.

And no, the room was not empty :) The entire crowd avoided the front two rows of seats.

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