James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing | Lex Fridman Podcast

James Gosling is the founder and lead designer of the Java programming language. Please check out our sponsors to get a discount and to support this podcast:
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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

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