Dr. Deprecator

An airhacks.fm conversation with Stuart Marks (@stuartmarks) about:
Wang 2200 Laboratories computer with 10 years, David Ahl 101 Basic
Computer Games, Basic without "else", GOTO and GOSUB, Pascal
Records and Java, conditional evaluation in Pascal, the criticism
on Pascal, Bill Joy added the socket interface to BSD 4.2,
replacing VMS with BSD, the Bill Joy long weekend, starting at Sun
Microsystems, working with James Gosling on the NeWS windows
system, Postcript based windows system, NeWS ran on SunOS, SunOS 5
became Solaris, the unpleasant UNIX wars with AT&T, HP and IBM,
X-Window vs. NeWS, shared state and NeWS, display postscript became
the NeXT system, the X-NeWS merge OS, Open Look and Motif,
OSF-opensource foundation, Motif became the dominant OS, creating a
eCommerce system with Java at Sun, working with James Gosling at
NeWS, project Oak and Project Green, Star Seven, licensing WebLogic
and Tengah, personal Java and the Java Ring, Java on Sharp Zaurus
and on Palm, working on J2ME, working with JavaFX, Chris Oliver
started JavaFX, F3 and Forms Follow Function, Java FX Script was an
own language, Richard Bair was the JavaFX architect, Jasper Potts
was was the Java FX UI designer, JavaFX is based on final classes,
the fragile base class / brittle base class problem, the general
subclassing problem, implementing a 2d traversial algorithm for
Java FX, Sun was shrinking, Java FX was growing, Brian Goetz worked
to improve the Java FX internals, RIAs - Rich Internet
Applications, Silverlight, Flash, Flex and JavaFX, JavaFX supported
CSS, the compiler bug war story, binding propagates side effects,
Robert Field is working on jshell,

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