Love, Limerence, and Programming Languages
summary
BASIC gives the first taste of expression and changes a career; Simula introduces objects as closures with coroutine support; APT is a 1956 DSL that compiles CNC toolpaths from constraint-based geometry (define points, lines, planes, then command spindle speed and cutter moves); PDP‑11 assembly implements a palindrome check in a handful of instructions teaching real performance; Prolog forces backtracking and rules; SQL replaces a 100–150 line Ruby royalty routine with a pure, three‑level nested query that actually performs; Unison uses content-addressed code and abilities to make distributed functions trivial to deploy.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:47BASIC love
- 9:25Simula and object-oriented thinking
- 14:54APT and domain-specific languages
- 19:33PDP-11 architecture
- 26:57Prolog logic
- 32:18SQL set-based
- 35:55PIC diagrams
- 41:12XSLT transformations
- 46:15Ruby harmony
- 47:45Elixir pipelines
- 50:34Unison future
- 54:10Future growth
- 56:16Gratitude
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