Episode 49: Special Guest Dave Abrahams! (Part 2)

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. 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 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 Gargill Intro Song Info Miss You…