Locknote: How JavaScript Happened: A Short History of Programming Languages

Locknote: How JavaScript Happened: A Short History of Programming Languages - Mark Rendle

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NDC Oslo 2023 Locknote
JavaScript was famously created in 10 days as a proof-of-concept for Netscape Navigator 2.0. Today it is one of the most-used languages in the world. Some people even like it.
In this talk we will chart the path from the dark days before programming languages, through the ups and downs of the early pioneers, all the way to 1995 and the creation of JavaScript. We will meet the giants on whose shoulders Brendan Eich stood, and speculate about what they might think of modern JavaScript. You will learn interesting things about language design (good and bad), computer internals (weird), and committees (just bad). You’ll see FizzBuzz implemented at least a dozen times. It’ll be fun.

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@mattskov2917 Жыл бұрын

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@FunctionGermany Жыл бұрын

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@BbB-vr9uh Жыл бұрын

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@Daysra Жыл бұрын

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@georget10i Жыл бұрын

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@andrewcrampton3433 Жыл бұрын

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@nyrtzi Жыл бұрын

Oh, there's Perlis also on the list of Algol's parents. Perlis the dude who said: "There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works."

@OldieBugger

One of my first programs was in MC, Zilog 80 MC. I had the list of Machine Codes at the back of Sinclair Spectrum manual. It didn't have any instructions, apart from the assembly opcodes. But that was enough. Yay!

@georget10i Жыл бұрын

Very interesting. And excellently presented!

@grauekatze

I'm very far from this industry but I watch Mark's and Dylan's talks anyway.

@fredgenius

Love it. Please do more like this.

@eclecticaaronbentley Жыл бұрын

You imply that the reason curly braces weren't available at first for some BCPL users was because ASCII was 7-bit. But in fact, curly braces were added to ASCII the same year BCPL came out, and ASCII remains 7-bit to this day.

@OldieBugger

When I was a kid, my mother worked to enter data to the University computer, on punch cards. She brought us kids a ton of those cards with a typo (or some other error) in them. I always will remember "FORTRAN STATEMENT" from those.

@gbeziuk

Not to undervalue Smalltalk's role in the history of programming languages, the concept of anonymous functions was probably already there when LISP came out. Maybe not quite spelled out loud back then, though.

@jalvrus Жыл бұрын

I have to wonder what we'd all be complaining about if the browser language had remained Scheme. Actually, I have to wonder if it would have been as widely accepted if it had remained Scheme. C and C++ ruled at that point; Lisp, not so much. Having a C-style syntax made it that that much easier for people to adopt.

@RoamingAdhocrat Жыл бұрын

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@agnarrenolen1336 Жыл бұрын

I believe the THINK Class Library had Exception handling in C before C++ had it natively. I would still preffer the simplicity of TCL-exceptions, which simply was implemented using Macroes.

@encrypted983 Жыл бұрын

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@OldieBugger

I have used goto pretty often, even when studying CompSci, even when I was told never to use it. But I had very justified reasons to use goto. Like from inside deeply nested for's / if's to the end of a function, like if(0==this_should_never_be_zero) goto end; Or something similar. Why not just return? Often there was some memory management to do at the end of a function, etc. Besides, it's a cleaner way to write: goto end; than just return in the middle of a function.