#126 – James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing

James Gosling is the founder and lead designer of the Java
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timestamp to jump to that time. OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 4:45 -
Irrational numbers 8:04 - Math and programming 10:36 - Coding style
14:41 - First computer 23:54 - Lisp 27:22 - Write an Emacs
implementation in C 35:15 - Early days of the Internet 45:57 - Elon
Musk, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos 56:13 - Work hard and smart 58:48 -
Open source 1:10:25 - Java 1:28:31 - Java virtual machine 1:44:05 -
Android 1:47:04 - Advice