1987
47:30John Backus: Function Level Programming and the FL Language 1987
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Arthur Vard
A 1987 talk in which John Backus, creator of Fortran, presents function-level programming and the FL language, a successor to his FP work. It is an archival recording with links to the related paper.
1:37:45Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols (Full Version)
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Kenneth Friedman
A full upload of Alan Kay's 1987 talk, with demos of several Smalltalk-era software systems and ideas about visual, kinesthetic and symbolic reasoning. It includes a Smalltalk program written by a 12-year-old and footage of the Rand tablet.