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Podcast: airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien
Episode: Plugging Things Together With Reactive Programming
Description: An airhacks.fm conversation with Gordon Hutchison (@hutchig) about:
Playing chess with zx81, huge computer scene in Glasgow,
BBC micro then saving for Acron Electron -- the cheaper BBC Micro,
programming text adventure games, Forth on RML 380 Z,
Sun's OpenBoot was written in Forth, Dragon 32, controlling the computer world with 13,
programming colourful fractals, "do whatever you have permission to", then accessing the printer queue, transactions research and Java, IBM develops Java Transaction Service (JTS),
travelling to Javasoft in Silicon Valley to transfer the JTS knowledge, moving from JTS to JVM implementation group at JDK 1.2 timeframe,
having fun with IBM Java...