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In December 2011, Roblox held its first Hack Week, an annual event where Roblox developers work on outside-the-box ideas for new developments to present to the company. [ 75 ] [ 76 ] On December 11, 2012, an iOS version of Roblox was released. [ 4 ]
David Brent Baszucki [1] (/ b ə ˈ z uː k i /; born January 20, 1963), also known by his former Roblox username builderman, is a Canadian-born American entrepreneur, engineer, and software developer.
Roblox Corporation's co-founder and CEO, David Baszucki, in 2018. Roblox Corporation was founded by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel. Baszucki had previously founded Knowledge Revolution, an educational software company, in 1989. With him and Cassel, the company developed Interactive Physics, a 2D physics simulation released in the same year.
Luau developed by Roblox Corporation, a derivative of Lua 5.1 with gradual typing, additional features and a focus on performance. [40] Ravi, a JIT-enabled Lua 5.3 language with optional static typing. JIT is guided by type information. [41] Shine, a fork of LuaJIT with many extensions, including a module system and a macro system. [42]
The first Autocode and compiler in the modern sense were developed by Alick Glennie in 1952 at the University of Manchester for the Mark 1 computer. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The FORTRAN team led by John W. Backus at IBM introduced the first commercially available compiler, in 1957, which took 18 person-years to create.
In January 2017, Balfanz, along with asimo3089, uploaded Jailbreak, a cops-and-robbers game, to Roblox. On its first day of release, it reached 70,000 concurrent players, a number which Balfanz later said had shocked him. [1] It quickly became one of the most popular games on the platform, and made Balfanz a millionaire. [4] [3]
Short Code (for UNIVAC II) Albert B. Tonik, [2] J. R. Logan Short Code (for UNIVAC I) 1952 A-0: Grace Hopper: Short Code 1952 Glennie Autocode: Alick Glennie after Alan Turing: CPC Coding scheme 1952 Operator programming Alexey Andreevich Lyapunov with the participation Kateryna Yushchenko: MESM: 1952 Editing Generator Milly Koss SORT/MERGE ...
In addition to primary authorship of Microsoft Word, he wrote Microsoft's first C compiler, the original version of Notepad, and Word for the IBM PC Jr. Brodie's success as a programmer brought him to the attention of Bill Gates , who made Brodie his technical assistant in 1983. [ 4 ]