Lex Fridman Podcast
#126 – James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing
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James Gosling is the founder and lead designer of the Java programming language. Please check out our sponsors to get a discount and to support this podcast:
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OUTLINE:
– Introduction
– Irrational numbers
– Math and programming
– Coding style
– First computer
– Lisp
– Write an Emacs implementation in C
– Early days of the Internet
– Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos
– Work hard and smart
– Open source
– Java
– Java virtual machine
– Android
– Advice
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