Emerging Languages Camp is an all day event held before Strange Loop. There were 11 presentations on new and unusual programming languages in varying stages of development. Production-ready languages like C#, Ruby, Clojure, and Haskell don't just spring to life out of nothing. There exists a historical context of major language families (Algol, LISP, ML, etc.) as well as a "primordial soup" of amateur, research, and proof-of-concept experiments which allow for features well outside the patter...