History and Spirit of C - Olve Maudal

In this talk we go back to the early days of programmable digital computers, and follow the developments leading up to C as we know it today.

Speaker: Olve Maudal

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[adamhaney]

It's a shame that there are not more views for this wonderful presentation. Thank you.

[oseyedian]

This is a precious piece of history that helped me to understand how the whole thing has been developed. Thank you sir.

[russelljames]

Excellent talk! Very informative. I have one minor complaint.

The name of the presentation should be "The Pre-History of the C Programming Language" since the first 31 mins of this 42 minute talk was about just that, with the next five being about the pre-history of C++, and only the last six minutes being about the history of C.

But thank you. I loved it!

[tomvito]

You are wrong. Konrad Zuse built the very first electronic digitally programmable Computer in the late 1930s.

[pm]

Can't help looking at the slide at 16:52 and thinking ... this is exactly the opposite of Rust - and why we have Rust :)

[jimbobago]

Let me just say at the outset that I know I'm a grammar N*zi. Still, if you're trying to give a professional presentation( and it is a good presentation), you should have someone spell-check your slides. It's jarring (to me) to see someone with extensive knowledge of a topic like computer history and then use multiple slides with spelling and grammar errors that a seventh-grader should recognize.