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Podcast: airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien
Episode: Programming Wallpaper over Violin
Description: An airhacks.fm conversation with Lenny Primak (@lprimak) about:
fortran as wallpaper: 2 x 6m,
violin lessons are the price,
commodore vic 20,
assembler love,
C++ is the best,
financial backends with sybase,
SQLJ,
Sun C++ compiler with painful templates,
C++ is actually a terrible language,
the killer Java feature,
binary C++ libraries are a nightmare,
designing stock indices on paper for complexity reduction,
building mortgage calculators,
flying as a hobby,
building market makers,
truck scheduling system,
Java EE just works,
starting with JBoss 4,
Java EE productivity for small business apps,
JBoss 4 to JBoss 5 migration didn't work,
switching from JBoss 4 to GlassFish 3,
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