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Podcast: airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien
Episode: From OCCAM and CSP to Java
Description: An airhacks.fm conversation with Kevlin Henney (@KevlinHenney) about:
first computer was a Sinclair ZX81 with 1K of memory,
programming in Basic and later Z80 assembly language,
creating simulations like volcano explosions and n-body problems as a teenager,
transitioning to the ZX Spectrum and other early home computers,
studying physics at university but becoming more interested in programming,
learning fortran,
getting his first programming job at a small software house in Bristol where his boss had a wall of books on programming languages and paradigms,
becoming self-taught through reading these books,
developing an interest in AI and philosophy of mind...