Excellent talk! Very informative. I have one minor complaint. The name of the presentation should be "The Pre-History of the C Programming Language" since the first 31 mins of this 42 minute talk was about just that, with the next five being about the pre-history of C++, and only the last six minutes being about the history of C. But thank you. I loved it!
I have been programming and teaching C/C++ for 44 years and I have never had any problems with C at all. Its a wonderfully concise language, you can keep the whole syntax in your head, and while there are parts of C++ I like, I must say its just become a syntactic semantic gloopy mess with everypody and his dog on the C++ committee wanting to get their features into the language and now its a miserable mess where they think they can fix everything with templates. Rust isnt the answer, just like C wasnt the answer to poor assembler programmers, and C++ wasnt the answer to poor C programmers and Java wasnt the answer to poor C++ programmers. C is probably the purest nicest language to use. I love it and still use it. K&R were just gods to come up with that in the 1970's. A poor programmer is always a poor programmer regardless which langauge they choose to be poor in.
You too are also wrong, this computer was electro mechanical in nature. The Manchester Baby, also called the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), was the first electronic stored-program computer. It was built at the University of Manchester by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn, and Geoff Tootill, and ran its first program on 21 June 1948.
Let me just say at the outset that I know I'm a grammar N*zi. Still, if you're trying to give a professional presentation( and it is a good presentation), you should have someone spell-check your slides. It's jarring (to me) to see someone with extensive knowledge of a topic like computer history and then use multiple slides with spelling and grammar errors that a seventh-grader should recognize.
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It's a shame that there are not more views for this wonderful presentation. Thank you.
This is a precious piece of history that helped me to understand how the whole thing has been developed. Thank you sir.
Excellent talk! Very informative. I have one minor complaint.
The name of the presentation should be "The Pre-History of the C Programming Language" since the first 31 mins of this 42 minute talk was about just that, with the next five being about the pre-history of C++, and only the last six minutes being about the history of C.
But thank you. I loved it!
Great and insightful talk
this is so refreshing. thanks!
Great video
Where can one get pcc?
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Can't help looking at the slide at 16:52 and thinking ... this is exactly the opposite of Rust - and why we have Rust :)
The invention of programming languages goes along with the increasing lack of education and missing effort of developers to write good code.
I have been programming and teaching C/C++ for 44 years and I have never had any problems with C at all. Its a wonderfully concise language, you can keep the whole syntax in your head, and while there are parts of C++ I like, I must say its just become a syntactic semantic gloopy mess with everypody and his dog on the C++ committee wanting to get their features into the language and now its a miserable mess where they think they can fix everything with templates.
Rust isnt the answer, just like C wasnt the answer to poor assembler programmers, and C++ wasnt the answer to poor C programmers and Java wasnt the answer to poor C++ programmers. C is probably the purest nicest language to use. I love it and still use it. K&R were just gods to come up with that in the 1970's.
A poor programmer is always a poor programmer regardless which langauge they choose to be poor in.
You are wrong. Konrad Zuse built the very first electronic digitally programmable Computer in the late 1930s.
You too are also wrong, this computer was electro mechanical in nature.
The Manchester Baby, also called the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), was the first electronic stored-program computer. It was built at the University of Manchester by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn, and Geoff Tootill, and ran its first program on 21 June 1948.
Let me just say at the outset that I know I'm a grammar N*zi. Still, if you're trying to give a professional presentation( and it is a good presentation), you should have someone spell-check your slides. It's jarring (to me) to see someone with extensive knowledge of a topic like computer history and then use multiple slides with spelling and grammar errors that a seventh-grader should recognize.