al3x + history   27

Professor John McCarthy
RT @swannodette: new site celebrating Professor John McCarthy's life work
lisp  programming  history 
7 weeks ago by al3x
Programming Language for Old Timers
"emphasizes cleanliness, flexibility, and extensibility [...] sports a more conventional-looking syntax than classic Lisp"
lisp  programming  language  history 
may 2010 by al3x
Computing Chronicles
"Watch The History Of Computers"
computer  history  video 
august 2009 by al3x
Peoples Archive
"dedicated to collecting for posterity the stories of the great thinkers, creators, and achievers of our time"
history  biography  video 
june 2009 by al3x
Little Language
"it is easier to implement a task-specific language optimized for that task than it is to implement a general-purpose language optimized for all possible uses"
programming  language  history  unix  dsl  wiki 
april 2009 by al3x
The Internet you didn't know
"The Internet has never been boring."
internet  history  rebuttal  slate 
february 2009 by al3x
Doug Engelbart 1968 Demo
Clips from the "Mother Of All Demos".
engelbart  computer  history  demo  video 
february 2009 by al3x
Joseph E. Stiglitz on capitalist fools
Not exactly a even-handed academic treatment of the current recession, but interesting.
economics  history  recession 
december 2008 by al3x
Atypical Types
On type systems. Some history, some practice.
presentation  typing  haskell  history 
november 2008 by al3x
The A-Z of Programming Languages: Modula-3
On the "other" historical type-safe language.
programming  language  history 
august 2008 by al3x
LIL, The Little Implementation Language
"Back in the days when systems programmers still disdained "high level languages" there were stories in the compiler community, passed mouth to ear about LIL, a high level assembler, whose creator, had a friendly competition with the creators of C, as to
c  programming  history  compiler  language  lil 
july 2008 by al3x
Speakeasies Then and Now
On speakeasies in San Francisco. How they were, where their modern equivalents are.
sf  drinking  history 
june 2008 by al3x
Halcyon Days
"Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers"
game  history  programming 
december 2007 by al3x

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