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References for "The Future of Programming"

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I gave a talk at the DBX conference called The Future of Programming. Below are links and quotes from some primary sources I used, as well as links to wikipedia and elsewhere where you can learn more. Much of the overall message and style of the talk was inspired by Alan Kay. For more talks with a similar message, I highly recommend: For a broader overview of some of the systems and ideas in this talk, see: Moore's law IBM 650 Reactions to SOAP and Fortran Richard Hamming -- The Art of Doing Science and Engineering, p25 (pdf book) In the beginning we programmed in absolute binary... Finally, a Symbolic Assembly Program was devised -- after more years than you are apt to believe during which most programmers continued their heroic absolute binary programming. At the time [the assembler] first appeared I would guess about 1% of the older programmers were interested in it -- using [assembly] was "sissy stuff", and a real programmer would not stoop to wasting machine capacity to do the ass

References for "The Future of Programming" References for "The Future of Programming" Bret Victor / July 30, 2013 I gave a talk at the DBX conference called The Future of Programming . Below are links and quotes from some primary sources I used, as well as links to wikipedia and elsewhere where you can learn more. Introduction Much of the overall message and style of the talk was inspired by Alan Kay . For more talks with a similar message, I highly recommend: Alan Kay -- Programming and Scaling (video) Gerry Sussman -- We Really Don't Know How To Compute! (video) For a broader overview of som

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