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#126 – James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing
Lex Fridman Podcast
Java - What's the Pointer Bug?
Jawa: I spent an ungodly amount of my life. Hunting down mystery pointer bugs. The ones that hurt, you know, they're like a one in a million chance. But nevertheless, create an infinite amount of suffering. And so I got really religious about this thing about making it so that if something fails, it fails immediately and visibly. Jawa: One of the things that was a real attraction of Java to lots of development shops was that we get our code up and running but not production ready.
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