"When I go to conferences about design I see a lot of declarative knowledge."
It's because he went to design CONFERENCE, not design WORKSHOP. The nature of conference speech is so much different from workshop.
It's because he went to design CONFERENCE, not design WORKSHOP. The nature of conference speech is so much different from workshop.
At conferences I want to be exposed to new ideas that I can then go look up on my own. Just to pick an example at random, as someone who has never used Haskell, I'd much rather hear about "so, what the hell is a monad, really", rather than, say, someone sitting there showing me how to write hello world in Haskell.