Re:Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages
by fanf2 on Thursday March 26, 2020 @06:16AM
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Then Lars Bak (who worked on Self and HotSpot) used the techniques to make JavaScript fast with v8
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Re:Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages
by lioeters on Thursday March 26, 2020 @08:54AM
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This is the second time this week I've seen Lars Bak mentioned. I'm so glad to have learned about his work on virtual machines, it's a direct line through the history of programming languages, from Self, Smalltalk, Java, V8 JavaScript engine, and Dart as well.