Guy Steele on Programming Languages

Posted by davidw on Thursday July 31, 2008 @12:40PM
from the infoq.com dept.

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/Programming-Languages-Guy-Steele

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Re:Guy Steele on Programming Languages by michaelneale on Thursday July 31, 2008 @06:17PM (#263521)

"Snowball" - I guess they mean Snobol. Perhaps a non programmer did the transcription.

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Re:Guy Steele on Programming Languages by 13ren on Thursday July 31, 2008 @09:34PM (#263664)

Bill Gasper... said: "Don't forget a data structure is merely a stupid programming language, and its point is that a data structure in effect, when given to the program that processes it, is guiding a computation and in effect constitutes a dumb little language that turns a specific application into a more specific one".

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Re:Guy Steele on Programming Languages by domgblackwell on Friday August 01, 2008 @08:28AM (#263949)

I think they mean Bill Gosper [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gosper]...

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Re:Guy Steele on Programming Languages by davidw on Thursday July 31, 2008 @04:32PM (#263420)

His choice of 'recommended languages' is interesting... and not quite what I would have expected.

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Re:Guy Steele on Programming Languages by mdakin on Thursday July 31, 2008 @05:46PM (#263504)

Note there is an error in the transcription of that section. He said, "Haskell, to pick a functional language" and not "Pascal" as the transcript reads.

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Re:Guy Steele on Programming Languages by michaelneale on Thursday July 31, 2008 @07:18PM (#263554)

yes I thought so too. And you think he would know a thing or too (rare long term experience in this industry)

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Re:Guy Steele on Programming Languages by silentbicycle on Thursday July 31, 2008 @07:49PM (#263585)

Is the link to the transcript inside the flash, and if so, could somebody please post it?

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Re:Guy Steele on Programming Languages by michaelneale on Thursday July 31, 2008 @10:48PM (#263709)

Sorry the best I could work out was to copy and paste: http://rafb.net/p/5zhzvQ16.html

Not great... will have to guess what is Q and what is A :(

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Re:Guy Steele on Programming Languages by silentbicycle on Thursday July 31, 2008 @11:32PM (#263728)

Thanks!

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