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

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The Java Virtual Machine

It's better to write good code in the beginning, as opposed to writing crappy code and then trying to fix it. The Java virtual machine was carefully designed to have different ways of viewing it. View it as sort of an encoding of the abstract syntax tree in reverse Polish notation. It is a really interesting idea in the history of programming.

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