#100: Dave Thomas

Dave Thomas is an adjunct research professor at Carleton University, and the University Of Queensland and is widely published in the software engineering literature. In this episode, we talk a walk down memory lane and look at languages past and present and compare them to Objective C. General Topics Boxing Delay Slots Lexical Closures Generics Dynamic Dispatch Double Dispatch Multimethods People Alan Kay Brad Cox Dan Ingalls Languages C++ C# Java Objective-C Forth Scheme Smalltalk Scala Racket APL APL Keyboard Azul Lisp Vector Langauges Logic Languages J K Ada F-script SNOBOL Icon Prolog Datalog Erlang Actor Constraint Language Closure awk sed Actra QNX Elixir Programming Elixir - Pragmatic Programmers Introducing Elixir - Oreilly