Dave Thomas is an adjunct research professor at Carleton University, and the University Of Queensland and is widely published in the software engineering literature. In this episode, we talk a walk down memory lane and look at languages past and present and compare them to Objective C.

General Topics

• Boxing
• Delay Slots
• Lexical Closures
• Generics
• Dynamic Dispatch
• Double Dispatch
• Multimethods

People

• Alan Kay
• Brad Cox
• Dan Ingalls

Languages

• C++
• C#
• Java
• Objective-C
• Forth
• Scheme
• Smalltalk
• Scala
• Racket
• APL
  • APL Keyboard
• Azul
• Lisp
• Vector Langauges
• Logic Languages
• J
• K
• Ada
• F-script
• SNOBOL
• Icon
• Prolog
• Datalog
  • Erlang
  • Actor
  • Constraint Language
• Closure
• awk
• sed
• Actra
• QNX
• Elixir
  • Programming Elixir - Pragmatic Programmers
  • Introducing Elixir - Oreilly