Episode 162: Sean Parent on the History of Pascal

Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs

In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat with Sean Parent about Pascal, C, Unix, Modula(-2/3) and more!

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• Conor Hoekstra
• Bryce Adelstein Lelbach

About the Guest:

Sean Parent is a senior principal scientist and software architect managing Adobe’s Software Technology Lab. Sean first joined Adobe in 1993 working on Photoshop and is one of the creators of Photoshop Mobile, Lightroom Mobile, and Lightroom Web. In 2009 Sean spent a year at Google working on Chrome OS before returning to Adobe. From 1988 through 1993 Sean worked at Apple, where he was part of the system software team that developed the technologies allowing Apple’s successful transition to PowerPC.
Show Notes
Date Recorded: 2023-12-12
Date Released: 2023-12-29

• Jonathan O’Connor ADSP Episodes
• Sean Parent tweet on ADSP Episode 154
• Software Unscripted Ep77: How Programming has Changed
• ArrayCast Ep68: Brian Ellingsgaard and the Rayed-BQN Games Framework
• UCSD Pascal
• Pascal Programming Language
• Steve Wozniak’s SWEET16
• p-code machine
• Apple Lisa
• Larry Tesler
• Object Pascal
• Delphi
• Unix
• VAX/VMS
• C Language
• Turbo Pascal
• Apple Pascal
• Metrowerks CodeWarrior IDE
• Modula Language
• Modula-2 Language
• Modula-3 Language
• Oberon Language
• Arthur Whitney
• Anders Hejlsberg
• Compiler Construction by Niklaus Wirth
• Lilith Computer
• Tilt Five
• Jeri Ellsworth

Intro Song Info

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