@Pariatech
17min in and still engaged! You have a nice way to entertain and inform that is pretty rare in the IT field.
@sandywyper
This is the weirdest episode of Star Trek I've ever seen.
@spookypen
The YT algorithm brought me here, staying for the whole thing. I don't know how to program a computer at all.
@makinggreatbread
Entertaining. I started programming in 73 (Cobol, Fortran, RPG, Assembly, machine) and haven't given those days much thought until watching this. A trip back in time. Loved it!
@bjornkihlberg2103
If we decide to choose "one language", we're going to find ourselves stuck with the popular option, not the right option.
@Ed64
I love the Commodore 64 showing up at minute “42”. Awesome talk as usual, Uncle Bob!
@tomrkba4685
"What have we done with that power?" CAT VIDEOS!
@joerogers4227
I am now almost 80. I have a 4 year degree from San Diego State University in Office automation. During my time from 1981 to 1989 when I graduated at age 47 I studied through Jr. College and SDSU many languages. Basic, Cobol 2 semesters, Fortran, Prolog which at the time was called a fuzzy language, RPG II also. My biggest project was programming in Dbase III and iv. I wrote a labor accounting program for Public Works Department on Miramar Naval air station. (NAS). We compiled with clipper and it could go onto a floppy disk. I like that program because it had clear steps and modules I created to do the job. I did my best to not use what we called spaghetti code or jumps all over the place. Through my career I met people who were involved in the computer world as Pioneer's. One was Dr. Hershey and his specialty was fortran and he developed the Hershey fonts. I also meet Dr. Hamming the developer of the hamming code for forward correction of transmitted data. Dr. Hershey was retired from Naval postgraduate School, the Dr. Hamming was a professor there. I like programming in Dbase IV but diskiked working with Prolog as it was not as structured. I remember when I was at Mesa jr. College in San Diego I got one night at 2:00 am and worked remotely on my Cobol program and I got a return message from a tech there asking if I ever Slept.
@Dmytro-kt3fr
Astonishing video, terrific analysis on the programming, definitely went to a saved videos. Most of us did lost a track of what paradigms and languages are, drowning in the frameworks and tech choice but forgetting the basic ideas behind everything. Will need to prep a "ted talk" in my company covering the things cover by Robert
@idiosinkrazijske.rutine
Damn, guys from the '50s were smart.
@solidstate0
22 orders of magnitude and humans still urinate in telephone boxes
@ericpmoss
Grumpy Lisp programmer here... Common Lisp "won't die" because it's extensible and multi-paradigm, and not driven by super-cool, super-pure solutions to toy problems. There should be a way to (a) write a leveled Lisp where things like garbage collection are optional, and layered on top of simpler layers, (b) make a processing architecture that lends itself to it, such as cdr-coded caching; (c) pull some of the commercially driven, non-Lispy clutter out of it, and (d) put some big-time effort into improving the compilers and interpreters. For the price of a single stealth bomber, we could do some beautiful things.
@lfmtube
I watched you video with great interest. Thank you for posting it. I used to work in Argentina with a PDP 11/04 with RT11 operating system. The CPU had 4K memory, an LA34 teleprinter with paper tape and a vt100 terminal. Over 40 years later, I still remember those great days. :) I was 19 years old and working reading magnetic tapes from mainframes and converting into Microfiches as a replacement for the huges printed lists that were generated in those days. All this at an speed of 36 thousand records per minute. It still amazes me how we could do all of that with such limited resources.
@MrBatraaf
Great vibe! I subscribed right away.
@billbez7465
Wow, this is classic. I've been a language junkie for years (actually, a couple decades), and Bob describes this more informative and interesting than I've heard for a long time.
@brawndo8726
43:29 The Dark Knight Falls
@ww1593
If this guy was my teacher in High School, I would've chosen a career in Computer Science 12 years ago ! Better late than never.
@ryanlyle9201
I'm not sure why I'm here and I don't understand all of it but the personality of this channel is highly infectious. You are a fun guy to watch.
@jrherita
I’m more of a hardware guy with some bouts of programming since the early 1980s.. this is an amazing video and take on languages!
@dialNforNinja