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Podcast: airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien
Episode: The First Line of Quarkus
Description: An airhacks.fm conversation with Emmanuel Bernard (@emmanuelbernard) about:
Amstrad PC 1512, the first PC computer ever made by Amstrad, two floppies are better than a hard drive, deleting double dots,
C/PM OS, BIOS as cheating detection,
creating snake game in BASIC, playing with Turbo Pascal,
from GO TOs over loops to procedures, objects, aspects to functional programming, exploring Mandrake Linux,
Tibco Messaging and C++, killing yourself with casting, the C discipline checker - an enforced linter,
120 errors caused by Coke break, no version control -- no time machine, starting with Java 1.2, replacing buttons with images in Swing / AWT, memory...