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The Future of Programming (2013)

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Re: The Future of Programming (2013)

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Post by romaniv »

macintux wrote: post #2

One of my all-time favorite talks. The IT industry is pretty bad in general at knowing what problems have previously been solved.

Yeah. Almost every time I watch a Marvin Minsky or Alan Kay video of any kind I'm surprised with info on some awesome technology or research from the 60s or 70s.

Re: The Future of Programming (2013)

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Post by pjmlp »

macintux wrote: post #2

One of my all-time favorite talks. The IT industry is pretty bad in general at knowing what problems have previously been solved.

Also for me.

When I delve into the digitized copies of these researches, I am always fascinated by the little treasures I find out.

And by being old enough to have experimented with some of them it saddens me the amount of left turns we have taken, for some to still be happy with a plain phosphor terminal experience.

Re: The Future of Programming (2013)

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Post by pjmlp »

romaniv wrote: post #3
macintux wrote: post #2

One of my all-time favorite talks. The IT industry is pretty bad in general at knowing what problems have previously been solved.

Yeah. Almost every time I watch a Marvin Minsky or Alan Kay video of any kind I'm surprised with info on some awesome technology or research from the 60s or 70s.

You should also check the systems programming research that was happening on those days, NEWP already had UNSAFE blocks that required "root" blessing to be executed.

Or the IBM RISC research using PL/8.

And many other examples, lost in research papers from all those companies.

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