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James Gosling is the founder and lead designer of the Java programming language. Please check out our sponsors to get a discount and to support this podcast:

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  Here’s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
  
  OUTLINE:
  0:00 - Introduction
  4:45 - Irrational numbers
  8:04 - Math and programming
  10:36 - Coding style
  14:41 - First computer
  23:54 - Lisp
  27:22 - Write an Emacs implementation in C
  35:15 - Early days of the Internet
  45:57 - Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos
  56:13 - Work hard and smart
  58:48 - Open source
  1:10:25 - Java
  1:28:31 - Java virtual machine
  1:44:05 - Android
  1:47:04 - Advice

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