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Lex Fridman
Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++, recounts his journey from learning Algol 60 in university to discovering Simula and its pioneering concepts of inheritance and runtime polymorphism. He emphasizes that while object-oriented programming is a significant part of modern languages like Java or Pyth …
Lex Fridman
Bjarne Stroustrup recounts his early journey through programming languages, beginning with Algol 60 and Fortran before finding himself drawn to Pascal's simplicity and microcode for efficiency. His path led him to Simula in the late 1960s while he was a visiting professor at Aarhus University, where …
Lex Fridman
James Gosling, the founder of Java and a pioneer in object-oriented programming, reflects on his early fascination with mathematics and concurrent computing before he embraced neural networks. He recalls how studying parallelism as an undergraduate changed his view of computers from single-tasking m …