Four Languages from Forty Years Ago - Scott Wlaschin 

3rd Scott Wlaschin talk I've seen. All very good. Really impressed by him.

why did nobody laugh at 'that is enough smalltalk'?!

After learning pretty much only imperative languages my entire life, I recently decided to dive into new language paradigms to broaden my mind and change how I think about programming. I've learnt a little Forth and I'm learning Haskell, and even though I've not gotten too far with either, it's already been eye opening. Prolog is another I'm gonna try at some point after I've gotten better with Forth and Haskell.

When I went to study in the university they offered all the courses in multiple time slots during the week and I wanted a schedule that'd suit me best.. so I built a Prolog program, fed it the time data about the courses and then I wrote a few rules (no 10-hour days, some but not too many free periods etc.) and it produced a few schedule options for me to pick from.. Prolog's pretty handy and learning it was definitely a galaxy brain experience for me.. that made me wonder what all other cool languages and paradigms were out there and oh boy did I find cool things :) But.. 20 years later I'm a bit saddened by what the current status quo is.

Omg. Prolog actually blew my mind. Thank you so much

It's always good to hear about programming history and paradigms in an entertaining manner. I would like to listen to an extended talk or course on this topic. Does anyone have a recommendation?

Great speach! It motivated me to learn Prolog one day!

So, I would be very interested to see a similar talk where APL *is* one of the languages you talk about. I would be curious to see what you have to say about... you know... this is APL, this is how it hangs together, these are the core ideas of APL, here's the sorts of things you can do with APL, here's an APL demo of doing a thingy with APL, etc. I have dabbled at it just slightly. I have enjoyed watching this video, and others, and I find it very interesting to know a bit about the history of different languages, to know their rough time of appearance, what were their main ideas, what other languages were they influenced by, what other languages did they inspire or impact, etc. I would also be very interested in what you have to say about Erlang and Elixir. Thanks for your video. ;)

Hmm. This Smalltalk demo... coding in the debugger... looks very similar to TDD to me. Great talk.

Programming languages are so interesting!

Scott Wlaschin also gave a great talk on functional programming concepts. Spoilers: He used the same cave man joke in the intro.

Point at the really collides with real floats, it’s not practical by any means. Thank you for great the talk, I really love your perspective on abstracting the good parts of this languages

a gem

I'm at 9:10 and gonna guess that Language X is VisiCalc

50:39: In Java classes are also objects. They are objects of the class Class. You can call methods on them (useful for reflection). Pretty sure C# is the same as well.

Hammer is right tool for every job. Anybody know why I keep breaking my keyboard?

No LISP? I'm sad. A great talk anyway :D

10:43 Gonna send this to the people who use Python and Python only (or JavaScript on everything).

Grandparent to the most popular programming language? I thought of PostScript. Like javascript, but for printers.

parent(charles, harry) or parent(jimmy, harry)?

I am learning Rust and it makes my head explode. *Approved*

those fucking hammers again

Three dislikes for this great talk. I assume that these three are Erlang/Elixir user, a Javascript user, and finally a Python worshiper.

Constant breathing on the microphone threw me off of this otherwise good talk. :/ I wish people in the tech industry had audio technicians. It has become a norm to have a great talk and speakers with shit audio.

SmallTalk was a deservedly failed language. Unusable with teams.

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