Reasons for the Popularity of the C Programming Language and Brief Mention of Ada

In this episode, Conor and Bryce continue their conversation with Jonathan O’Connor and chat about a plethora of programming languages!

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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: 2023-11-03

• Jonathan O’Connor Meeting C++ Bio
• Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs Book
• Pascal Language
• Ada Language
• Why Did C Succeed Over Pascal?
• Carbon Github
• Zig Language
• Nim Language
• Uiua Language
• Eiffel Language
• Bertrand Meyer
• Richard Feldman on Twitter
• Software Unscripted Podcast
• Why Isn’t Functional Programming the Norm? – Richard Feldman
• James Gosling Keynote “Thoughts on language evolution” - reClojure 2022
• Clojure Language
• ArrayCast Episode 41: John Earnest and Versions of k

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