From Glockenspiel to Ruby: A Journey of Programming Languages

In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat with Jonathan O’Connor about his career path from C++ to Java to Ruby and back to C++, as well as his work in Rwanda and a discussion about quines!

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About the Guest:

Jonathan O’Connor in 1988 joined Glockenspiel, a small Irish company. C++ had no virtual destructors, but it did have a coroutine library! I spent 2 years teaching C++ and OOP. In 2000, he switched over to Java. But by 2010, he started 7 wonderful years writing in Ruby. In 2016, he returned to a completely different C++, where one never had to see a pointer if you didn’t want to. These days he is helping to make the world a better place writing C++ code for LADE GmbH, a company building electric car charging infrastructure.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2023-10-18
Date Released: 2023-10-20

• Jonathan O’Connor Meeting C++ Bio
• Meeting C++ Conference
• Alices adventures in Template Land - Jonathan O’Connor - Meeting C++ 2018
• Ruby String to_i
• Ruby Integer to_s
• Ruby Slices ..
• Number of Automated Teller Machines (ATMs), Country Wide for Rwanda
• Python Index Slicing
• M-Pesa app
• Common Lisp
• Franz Lisp
• Franz Liszt (composer)
• Dylan
• PicoLisp
• History of Lisps YouTube Video (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - Chapter 1.1
• Rosetta Code: Quine
• Lightning Talk: How to Write a Quine? - Dmitry Kandalov [ ACCU 2021 ]
• Quine-Relay (Uroboros)
• ACL2 Language

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