In this episode, Bryce and Conor interview Dave Abrahams about how he went from programming BASIC to APL to C++!

About the Guest:

Dave Abrahams is a contributor to the C++ standard, a founding contributor of the Boost C++ Libraries project and of the BoostCon/C++Now conference, and was a principal designer of the Swift programming language. He recently spent seven years at Apple, culminating in the creation of the declarative SwiftUI framework, worked at Google on Swift for TensorFlow, and is now a principal scientist at Adobe, where he and Sean Parent are rebooting the Software Technology Lab.

Date Recorded: 2021-10-03
Date Released: 2021-10-29

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