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The History Of Programming, Part 1

Talkat NDC Sydney 2018 · 2018-09-17..09-21· [open-source]
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A rapid timeline claiming concrete shifts: Go 2.0 finally adds generics (with awkward syntax), nullable reference types land in C# 8 and make previously unchecked nulls fail compilation, and .NET gains a tool to produce huge statically linked native executables. Browsers run heavy code via WebAssembly and Unity targets AR; Apple buys Unity to own the AR stack. Quantum processors collapse modern cryptography and spawn Q# confusion, triggering the 2038–2040 Python Wars over incompatible releases.

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  1. 0:00Start
  2. 6:15Hello World in FORTRAN
  3. 6:35Hello World in ALGOL-58
  4. 7:22Hello World in IBM COBOL
  5. 8:06Conway's Game of Life in APL
  6. 11:38Hello World in Erlang
  7. 11:55Hello World in JavaScript
  8. 14:43Hello World in Alexa
  9. 15:28Hello World in WASM
  10. 25:01Hello World in Python 4
  11. 27:53Adjoint
  12. 31:43Hello World in Java 13
  13. 33:34EQVM Languages
  14. 34:15Hello World in BARIC
  15. 36:48Hello Pizza in G-code++
  16. 39:31CRM in .NET Cortana
  17. 40:58Hello World in Cortexleson
  18. 41:18Hello World in Python 5
  19. 43:06Hot Earl Grey Tea in Prime
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