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

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What's the First Program You've Ever Written?

When you think about a program, what do you see? I see pictures. So then when you look at the program, that's why you want to see it all in the same place. Then you can just map it to something visual. And it's kind of like it leaps off the page at me. What are the inputs? What are the outputs? What the heck is this thing doing? Yeah. Can we go back into your memory, memory, long term memory access? What's the first program you've ever written? Oh, I have no idea what the first one was. The machine that I learned on was one that was kind of hidden in the back corner of the

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