Dr. Deprecator

An airhacks.fm conversation with Stuart Marks (@stuartmarks) about: Wang 2200 Laboratories computer with 10 years, David Ahl 101 Basic Computer Games, Basic without "else", GOTO and GOSUB, Pascal Records and Java, conditional evaluation in Pascal, the criticism on Pascal, Bill Joy added the socket interface to BSD 4.2, replacing VMS with BSD, the Bill Joy long weekend, starting at Sun Microsystems, working with James Gosling on the NeWS windows system, Postcript based windows system, NeWS ran on SunOS, SunOS 5 became Solaris, the unpleasant UNIX wars with AT&T, HP and IBM, X-Window vs. NeWS, shared state and NeWS, display postscript became the NeXT system, the X-NeWS merge OS, Open Look and Motif, OSF-opensource foundation, Motif became the dominant OS, creating a eCommerce system with Java at Sun, working with James Gosling at NeWS, project Oak and Project Green, Star Seven, licensing WebLogic and Tengah, personal Java and the Java Ring, Java on Sharp Zaurus and on Palm, working on J2ME, working with JavaFX, Chris Oliver started JavaFX, F3 and Forms Follow Function, Java FX Script was an own language, Richard Bair was the JavaFX architect, Jasper Potts was was the Java FX UI designer, JavaFX is based on final classes, the fragile base class / brittle base class problem, the general subclassing problem, implementing a 2d traversial algorithm for Java FX, Sun was shrinking, Java FX was growing, Brian Goetz worked to improve the Java FX internals, RIAs - Rich Internet Applications, Silverlight, Flash, Flex and JavaFX, JavaFX supported CSS, the compiler bug war story, binding propagates side effects, Robert Field is working on jshell, Stuart Marks on twitter: @stuartmarks, Stuart Marks blog: stuartmarks.wordpress.com