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When computer programmers think they are stand-up comedians.
6:00 I love that when someone is British he has a name "Alan Turing" but if you are Polish like Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki or Henryk Zygalski you are "some Polish engineers".
Such a lovely talk. I laughed. I cried. It became a part of me.
"Hi Mark, I enjoyed your talk. You mentioned that CONTINUE is used to 'skip the rest' of a DO loop. I studied Fortran back in the 60s, and we were taught that the CONTINUE statement is actually a placeholder—a non-executable statement that provides a label for the end of the DO loop. It doesn't perform any action itself, but rather gives the loop a designated end point. Just a small clarification from an old-timer! Thanks again for the great content." -- Respectful Polite Reply composed by Gemini.
JavaScript: the most wonderful terrible language ever invented. It's amazing how quickly one can create giant wads of undecipherable code & data structures.
Really great speaker!
Could listen to Rendle talk for hours, such a pleasant speaker. And the fact that you learn things while doing so, well that's just a bonus.
Very, very interesting!!!
Ada had exceptions before C++ had them.
14:45 that meeting is around the corner now
59:50 he has this backwards: the Orleans developers adding async/await to the C# compiler were familiar with Mark Miller's thesis and the E programming language which introduced our modern concept of promises (and yes, his promises were A+ compliant).
The IBM 704 FORTRAN compiler can't compile your sample code. What you show Is FORTRAN IV. Original FORTRAN's IF statement was: IF (expression) a,b,c The expression was evaluated and if less then zero would branch to a, equal to zero branch to b, greater than zero branch to c. To compare two values you subtracted one from the other and then jumped as was appropriate. I spent a summer programming in FORTRAN II, so this is ingrained in my memory. Later versions referred to this as an arithmetic IF. The .GT., .EQ., etc notation was added TO FORTRAN IV. The PRINT *, notation is also a later addition, in original FORTRAN the * had to be the line number of a FORMAT statement, and text couldn't be in the PRINT (or WRITE) statement. The xH notation specifies the number of characters. The code is correct but you ovgeneralized in the explination. And CONTINUE is just a NOP, and has no meaning other than to have an associated line number. FORTRAN does have some additional intersting features, such as the assigned goto, computed goto, and the EQUIVALANCE statement which allows you to overlay storage. EQUIVALENCE (I,J) I=2 J=3 K=I+J will result in K having a value of 6. Put that in your worst programming language😊
Was John McCarthy really George Lucas?
There's a bug in that FORTRAN fizzbuzz. "CONTINUE" doesn't do anything. It's often used as the placeholder on a loop-termination line. It's not the same as Javascript's "continue".
Re room's law: you can write a Fortran program in any language.
Fizzbuzz in java 25 will be much better. compact classfile, automatic imports of the standard library, instance main method
It started as fun, and now seven years later fun is going to the school...
So lisp is to blame for this scheme like languages!?!?
If anyone is interested in the corporate drama going on behind the scenes at Netscape when JavaScript was created, Brandon Eich did a 3h interview with Lex Friedman
We really need a snappier term for "the amount of atoms in the observable universe". It's long overdue.