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#126 – James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The New Instruction Cash Architecture Hurts Us

The idea of an abstraction layer that's agnostic to the underlying machine from the perspective of the developer is brilliant. The purchasing people would have to make this decision before the first line of software was written. But then there's also a time thing because as you went from one generation to the next generation, there were all different things. And you would often have to rewrite your software.

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