August 11, 2020

Episode 7 - Allen Wirfs-Brock

35 minutes

In this episode of TC39er.us we have Allen Wirfs-Brock!

Dreaming the future of software; Project Editor ECMAScript 2015; Reformed Smalltalker; JavaScript historian!

We shall be talking about:

What brought him to tech?

How was tech when Allen started programming in the mid 1960s!

His journey in the TC39 committee.

What happened there with ES4?

JavaScript historian, what future holds for us?

ECMA Fellow and ACM Distinguished Engineer?

What's your fav proposal and why?

P.S: Don't forget to read JavaScript: the first 20 years a paper by Allen Wirfs-Brock and Brendan Eich!

...more

By Hemanth H.M

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