How JavaScript Happened: A Short History of Programming Languages - Mark Rendle - NDC London 2024

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    JavaScript was famously created in 10 days as a proof-of-concept for Netscape Navigator 2.0. Today it is one of the most-used languages in the world. Some people even like it. In this talk we will chart the path from the dark days before programming languages, through the ups and downs of the early pioneers, all the way to 1995 and the creation of JavaScript.
    We will meet the giants on whose shoulders Brendan Eich stood, and speculate about what they might think of modern JavaScript. You will learn interesting things about language design (good and bad), computer internals (weird), and committees (just bad). You’ll see FizzBuzz implemented at least a dozen times. It’ll be fun.
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  • @TechTalksWeekly
    @TechTalksWeekly 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I could listen to Mark for hours and never get bored!
    This talk was so good it's been featured in the latest Tech Talks Weekly issue 🎉
    Congrats!

  • @McSecular
    @McSecular หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you SOOOOO much, Mark. I learn something every time I watch a talk of yours!!!

  • @Oglokoog
    @Oglokoog 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This man's an absolute pleasure to listen to!

    • @MarkRendle
      @MarkRendle 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      😊

    • @chfr
      @chfr 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's late, this comment is what made me not switch to another video and I absolutely don't regret it, very fun talk, the elocution is great and the small wheezes/laughs are endearing

  • @Dalamain
    @Dalamain 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This was awesome!

  • @CEOofCulturalMarxism
    @CEOofCulturalMarxism 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    8:40 Colossus was not turing complete, ENIAC was (expect, technically for the fact that it had limited memory), if Colossus counts as general porpuse then the german Zuse Z3 should be considered the first computer, as it was build earlier, however it was not really turing complete either.

    • @sundhaug92
      @sundhaug92 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Also (IIRC) ENIAC wasn't really Turing-complete until the later iteration

    • @MarkRendle
      @MarkRendle 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Colossus was the first programmable digital electronic computer. ENIAC was the first *general-purpose* programmable etc. And the Manchester Baby (SSEM) was the first *stored-program* general-purpose etc. etc.

    • @adisander
      @adisander 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@MarkRendle And the Z3 was a programmable digital electricmechanical computer and completed in 1941, 2 years ahead of the Colossus Mk1. Does it really have to be purely electical?

  • @faldarith
    @faldarith หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    TIL the old weird flashy lights are the equivalent of modern RGB leds

  • @sundhaug92
    @sundhaug92 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    IIRC part of the reason they made Simula is that they were having problems simulating ship-behavior in water where parameters of one ship would affect the other - so you might have a small sailing-ship with some properties from that huge tanker you were simulating last week

  • @garyduell3768
    @garyduell3768 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I laugh at the idea of monitors matching print sizes. Hey look at the A3 monitor I got. I think A2 is too big and A4 was so last decade.

  • @vsenderov
    @vsenderov 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Before Eniac there was ABC (first fully electronic computer) and before Colossus there was Konrad Zuze's machine (first electromechanical computer)

  • @roo72
    @roo72 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It was the Poles, mathematicians not technicians, who built the bombe.

  • @RoamingAdhocrat
    @RoamingAdhocrat 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Eli is that you in the audience there? 😄

  • @user-kn6bq5fm7e
    @user-kn6bq5fm7e 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So happy the guy from IT Crowd got out of the it support basement, even if his accent had to change.

    • @MarkRendle
      @MarkRendle 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Roy or Moss?

    • @user-kn6bq5fm7e
      @user-kn6bq5fm7e 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@MarkRendle I was thinking Roy :D
      On a serious note, I am a big fan!

  • @edgeeffect
    @edgeeffect 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Are any Fortran jokes good jokes?
    That truly awful pre Fortran-77 Fortran filled me with childhood nostalgia.... and abject horror.

    • @MarkRendle
      @MarkRendle 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      No. Trust me, I looked.

  • @SRG-Learn-Code
    @SRG-Learn-Code 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    >>> And how can we prevent it from happening again...
    That quote is misleading. Sure there are things that it could have done better... I mean, a lot of things.
    But at the same time... it is what runs the world.
    Is a little bit like spreadsheets. You can love them or hate them, but they are key in lots of industries.

    • @ArturdeSousaRocha
      @ArturdeSousaRocha 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think that is part of the problem: JavaScript is suboptimal for this purpose because of its quirks and its current ecosystem.

    • @MarkRendle
      @MarkRendle 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's just a joke... mostly. ;)

    • @ArturdeSousaRocha
      @ArturdeSousaRocha 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@MarkRendle JavaScript or the title? :D