A Slice Through the History of Programming Languages
Based on a talk I gave at Tsinghua University in December 2019, this video takes a historical perspective from Fortran to APL to Functional Programming, , asking why we build programming languages and showing how history can inform future designs.

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History and Spirit of C - Olve Maudal

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Computer History IBM 1130 System Engineering 1965 FORTRAN Programming languages, System/360

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The Last Programming Language

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Early History of Programming Languages by Donald Knuth

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Co-Creator of Haskell: Why Learn Functional Programming, Useless vs Useful Languages | Simon Jones

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Does Programming Have a Future?

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Birth of BASIC

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1963 Timesharing: A Solution to Computer Bottlenecks

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How History Shaped the Programming Terms We Still Use Today

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History of Programming Languages.(Documentary 2024)

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"Concatenative programming and stack-based languages" by Douglas Creager

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Programming in America in the 1950s – Some Personal Impressions by John Backus

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The Most Misunderstood Concept in Math

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Alan Perlis-Doug Engelbart (The Acm Conference On The History of Personal WorkStation)-1986

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Four Languages from Forty Years Ago - Scott Wlaschin

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How Machine Language Works

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APL demonstration 1975

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A History of C, UNIX, and Computation (a.k.a "The importance of 1978")

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Yesterday's Computer of Tomorrow: The Xerox Alto │Smalltalk-76 Demo

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