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A Slice Through the History of Programming Languages - Gilad Bracha
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A Slice Through the History of Programming Languages
Gilad Bracha
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- Presented by Gilad Bracha, co-author of the Java Language Specification
Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.
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Programming languagesHistory and cultureLanguage design and type systemsHistory of computingFunctional programming
Gilad Bracha traces the history of programming languages from Fortran to functional programming, exploring why we build them and how history informs design.
Based on a talk I gave at Tsinghua University in December 2019, this video takes a historical perspective from Fortran to APL to Functional Programming, , asking why we build programming languages and showing how history can inform future designs.Why it's here
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On “Do you know any interesting talks about PL design/compilers/interpreters?”
This is an iOS note, so it might not be formatted well, but:
Philip Wadler - Linear types can change the world!
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/24c8/50390fba27fc6f3241cb34ce7bc6f3765627.pdf
Gilad Bracha - Pluggable Type Systems
https://bracha.org/pluggableTypesPosition.pdf
Gilad Bracha - A Slice Through the History of Programming Languages
link to this video
Guy Steele - Growing a Language (I actually saw this many months ago)
link to this video
Trevor Jim - What are principal typings and what are they good for?
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/237721.237728?download=true
Eeve - Let’s stop copying C
https://eev.ee/blog/2016/12/01/lets-stop-copying-c/