lecture : languages

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learning from n languages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctQO-Veu50c

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if languages had mottos

https://medium.com/better-programming/if-programming-languages-had-honest-slogans-6fb6201a6e03

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beyond pep8. half half is cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-BqAjZb8M

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why isn't fictional programming more common mins 1:20 is about other languages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyJZzq0v7Z4&list=PLYb6pST7CTgQnjiuk5Jx3psQF6XRdXbvZ&index=51&t=0s

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functional programming: monad == then

https://medium.com/@nitinpatel_20236/what-does-the-phrase-monadic-bind-mean-a2184f34b2e3

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyJZzq0v7Z4&list=PLYb6pST7CTgQnjiuk5Jx3psQF6XRdXbvZ&index=51&t=0s

history

• 00:00:27 Richard Feldman: Why are things the way they are? It's complicated.
• 00:00:53 Richard Feldman: Outline
• 00:00:59 Richard Feldman: Part 1. Language
• 00:01:01 Richard Feldman: What languages are norm today. Top 10. No functional programming language.
• 00:01:42 Richard Feldman: How did they get popular.
• 00:02:05 Richard Feldman: 1. Killer apps. VisiCal to Apple II/Rails to Ruby/Wordpress & Drupal to PHP ...
• 00:06:21 Richard Feldman: 2. Platform Exclusivity. ObjC/Swift to iPhone sales / JS to web&internet user / C# to Windows&VS
• 00:10:21 Richard Feldman: 3. Quickly Upgrade. CoffieScript&TypeScript to JS / Kotlin to Java
• 00:13:27 Richard Feldman: 4. Epic Marketing. $500M Java marketing compaign in 2003
• 00:16:15 Richard Feldman: 5. Slow and Steady. Python story
• 00:17:53 Richard Feldman: Other Popularity Factors. Syntax/JobMarket/Community

why inheritance

(btw: no inheritance in Julia or Go)

• 00:18:46 Richard Feldman: Why are the most popular languages OO except C.
• 00:19:15 Richard Feldman: Part 2. Paradigm
• 00:19:39 Richard Feldman: Uniuquely OO features. Encapsulation = Modularity
• 00:35:35 Richard Feldman: They are OO because modularity is a good idea and they originally got if from OO by chance.