LTU links to a lecture by Alan Kay on (ostensibly) the history and current state of programming. But he actually talks about confusing our beliefs with reality, the origin of ideas, “tinkering” as opposed to proper science and engineering, the abstraction-concretization-abstraction cycle etc etc. Something he says about half way though the lecture reminded me [...]
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