Bret Victor The Future of Programming
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Bret Victor's DBX 2013 talk, delivered in the guise of a 1973 IBM engineer with an overhead projector. It surveys forgotten ideas from 1960s and early 70s computing and warns against assuming you know what you're doing.
Why HN recommends it: HN treats it as a classic, near-mandatory talk on how programming tools and paradigms stagnated and which older ideas deserve revival.
“Take a look and you will be amazed of how good (or revolutionary by our standards) some old technologies were.” Read on HN ↗