VIDEO: The History of Unix, by Rob Pike

By Vasudev Ram


This is a video about Unix history by Rob Pike, Unix veteran and co-creator of the Go programming language.

The History of Unix, Rob Pike

The video is also embedded below.

There is also a current HN thread about it.

- Enjoy.

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Meet the world's biggest bovine, the gaur

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I was browsing for information about the Gaur (the Indian bison, my mascot :), when I came across this nice video about them:

Meet the world's biggest bovine, the gaur.

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Video (2010): Python vs. Ruby: A Battle to the Death: Gary Bernhardt

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Came across this video recently via a chain of links:

Video (2010): Python vs. Ruby: A Battle to the Death: Gary Bernhardt

His blog post about it:

Both video and post are from 2010.

Started watching the video, seems interesting.

The video is also embedded below.

Python vs. Ruby: A Battle to The Death from Gary Bernhardt on Vimeo.

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Python video: Loop like a native - by Ned Batchelder

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I saw this really good Python video a while ago, and remembered it today in the context of some Python work I was doing.

It is by Ned Batchelder at PyCon US 2013, The title of the talk is:

Loop like a native: while, for, iterators, generators

The video is also embedded below.

Basically it is about more idiomatic ways of looping in Python, which can often lead to shorter, clearer, less redundant code.




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Video: PyCon US 2016: Alex Martelli: Exception and error handling in Python 2 and Python 3

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I started watching this recent PyCon US 2016 video. I found it informative and interesting:

Alex Martelli: Exception and error handling in Python 2 and Python 3

Alex Martelli is the author or co-author of some well-known Python books like Python in a Nutshell and the Python Cookbook (for at least one of the versions); I've bought and read some of them, and they are pretty good.

[ Interestingly, the Wikipedia article about Alex, linked above, says that he is also noted for coining the phrase duck typing. ]

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Video: Interview: GoingNative 6: Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu - D Programming Language

By Vasudev Ram


I watched this video (from 2013) a few days ago:

GoingNative 6: Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu - D Programming Language

Going Native [1] is a tech event, and I guess 6 refers to the 6th year or edition of it. I first saw this video on Channel 9, one of Microsoft's technology sites. That site has multiple links to the video, including downloadable, in different qualities, so you may want to check out getting it from there. [2]

[1] There seems to be rising interest in "native" (programming) languages these days (before the rise of "scripting" languages, all languages were native, i.e. they ran, after compilation, on the "metal" (i.e. the CPU), not on a language VM or interpreter, and we just called them languages, no fancy-shmancy names, ha ha :). Part of the reason for the rise in interest, as mentioned in the video, is that we are entering (or have entered) a world of multi-core and concurrency, and due to Moore's law ending (?) Anyway, native languages like D, Go and Rust are picking up these days, whatever the reason. I've used native languages like Pascal and C a lot at work earlier, so I welcome this return of greater interest in native languages, though I'm not stopping using languages like Python anytime soon either.

[2] And to download the video at the command line, check out youtube-dl, a YouTube downloader in Python. Yes, downloading a video about native languages with a tool written in a scripting language - go figure :)

The video shows an interviewer talking to both Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu. Walter, who developed the first native C++ compiler, is the original creator of the D programming language and Andrei, who was a C++ expert and book author, joined him some years later to help in developing the language. The interview was somewhat wide-ranging and a bit long, and quite interesting. Many aspects of the language and the plans and in-progress work for it were talked about.

The video is also embedded below.



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