Mr. Omni

An airhacks.fm conversation with Ken Fogel (@omniprof) about:
Digi-Comp I 3bit computer by Admin Scientific, programming with
small pieces of plastic, a course in fortran, a service person in a
mail room working 20mins a day, borrowing 5000 dollars and buying
Apple II for 2000 dollars in 1980, buying a floppy disk drive for
700 dollars, starting with AppleSoft Basic by Microsoft, learning
assembly language to improve performance, presentation at the
university to introduce Apple computer, controlling a water
filtration system with Apple II, writing conversion for word
processors in PL 1, WordPerfect, IBM MultiMate, WordStar, starting
at the University to teach COBOL, teaching project courses, good
bye Cobol in 2000, starting with Java in 1999, replacing the
mainframe with Java, Java 1.4 was the most amazing thing, developer
works and alpha works websites, IBM’s Jikes compiler, a short
history of .net, $10k for Cobol, Oracles JDeveloper, Borland
JBuilder, Sun Java Workshop and Sun Java Studio, From JDeveloper to
Eclipse, From Eclipse to NetBeans, Netbeans just works, a message
from Geertjan Wielenga, the invitation to JavaOne, JavaOne - the
geeks heaven, NetBeans Days and DOScon in Montreal, the jChampions
conference, Visual Studio Code is written in typescript, Visual
Basic had the most amazing switch case, Java 17 and the new switch
case, the executive JCP member, learn to program Java by Springer,
writing all the code in main method, writing a Java book,

Ken Fogel on twitter: @omniprof