Rasmus Andersson
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
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Most programming languages in use today derive from Fortran or Lisp, both created in the 1950s.
Their wordsPretty much any programming language used today is a derivative of Fortran or Lisp, both born in the 1950s.
↗The 1950s called and wanted their toolbox backrsms.me 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsprofessional and hobbyist programmers alike all use the same tools as we did 60 years ago - one-dimensional, sequential plain text.
↗The 1950s called and wanted their toolbox backrsms.me 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe field of programming need to see a renaissance in fundamental reinvention, just as it did in the 1950s when programming machines using levers and buttons was replaced by programming machines using textual sequences of computer commands.
↗The 1950s called and wanted their toolbox backrsms.me 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsRegister-based virtual machines avoid the push and pop operations usually surrounding other instructions, reducing code size, but in several cases also increases speed of execution (compared to stack-based virtual machines).
↗Sol — a sunny little virtual machinersms.me 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsThese systems often benefit from cooperative multitasking, in particular coherent, specialized systems (unlike operating systems which are general by nature).
↗Sol — a sunny little virtual machinersms.me 2nd of 2 in this piece