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Building JavaScript: 10 days sprint.
41:14 - 47:46 (06:31)
In this podcast, the speaker talks about his experience building JavaScript in a 10-day sprint. He discusses how he copied a lot from Java and C while keeping things simple, and how he used an HTML comment as a new element to create different semantics.
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A discussion about the relationship between the history of computing and evolutionary biology including the idea that mitochondria were once prokaryotes that eventually became beneficial to cells and how the creation of the first computers was a special moment in computing history.
41:14 - 43:22 (02:07)
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A discussion about the relationship between the history of computing and evolutionary biology including the idea that mitochondria were once prokaryotes that eventually became beneficial to cells and how the creation of the first computers was a special moment in computing history.
ChapterBuilding JavaScript: 10 days sprint.
Episode#160 – Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, talks about the evolution of the language, from its beginnings as a simple glue language to its current status as a versatile and powerful tool for web development.
43:22 - 45:35 (02:13)
Summary
Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, talks about the evolution of the language, from its beginnings as a simple glue language to its current status as a versatile and powerful tool for web development.
ChapterBuilding JavaScript: 10 days sprint.
Episode#160 – Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
The speaker discusses the evolution of programming languages and how they have borrowed from each other, such as the equality operator from Java and C, and the use of bottom-up grammars for efficient parsers.
45:35 - 47:46 (02:10)
Summary
The speaker discusses the evolution of programming languages and how they have borrowed from each other, such as the equality operator from Java and C, and the use of bottom-up grammars for efficient parsers.