In this episode, Bryce and Conor interview Dave Abrahams about how he went from programming BASIC to APL to C++!

About the Guest:

Dave Abrahams is a contributor to the C++ standard, a founding contributor of the Boost C++ Libraries project and of the BoostCon/C++Now conference, and was a principal designer of the Swift programming language. He recently spent seven years at Apple, culminating in the creation of the declarative SwiftUI framework, worked at Google on Swift for TensorFlow, and is now a principal scientist at Adobe, where he and Sean Parent are rebooting the Software Technology Lab.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2021-10-03
Date Released: 2021-10-29

• ADSP Episode 48: Special Guest Dave Abrahams!
• Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs
• Niklaus Wirth
• Combinatory Logic
• Stepanov’s “Notes on Higher Order Programming in Scheme”
• PDP-8
• 101 BASIC Computer Games by David Ahl
• Rutgers University
• PDP-10
• TECO
• APL
• Princeton University
• Aaron Hsu’s Co-dfns GPU Compiler
• Swift Programming Language
• Conor’s Galaxy Brain Programming Languages
• Ben Deane’s Six languages worth knowing
• Lisp Machine
• Emacs
• Composer’s Mosaic
• THINK C
• Exception handling: a false sense of security - Tom Cargill

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