I'll be live-tweeting my highlights from HOPL IV, the once-in-a-generation conference about the history of programming languages. https://hopl4.sigplan.org/
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Cleve Moler presented about the history of Matlab. Turns out Matlab stands for "Matrix Laboratory", which .... I'm surprised I didn't know.
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John Chambers talks about the history of S, R, and data science. Shows off this awesome memorabilia: first created CD of R signed by the dev team.pic.twitter.com/GLQmMervyD
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Jeffrey Kodosky of National Instruments presents the history of LabVIEW. Fascinating look at how to visually represent programming concepts: dataflow, loops, concurrent communication.pic.twitter.com/lGSDF1g47q
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He noted that the first version of LabVIEW was used more broadly than anticipated. All kinds of scientists felt empowered to run their own programs. Also he credited their willingness to see the potential in LabVIEW and overlook its initial flaws (eg lack of undo).
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Steve Naroff on creating Clang: "We were using LLVM married with GCC to do dynamic optimizations at runtime [...] But I wanted a frontend for LLVM to have a compiler that could live entirely at runtime. GCC was not well-equipped to do that."
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Earlier, Mary Shaw gave a keynote about myths vs. reality of programming practice. I appreciate "vernacular software developer" as an alternative to "end-user programmer".pic.twitter.com/kf9CT3zaEL
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Do you know if these slides are available somewhere else than as a twitter image?
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