programming
31:00ALAIN COLMERAUER L'AVENTURE PROLOG
7K views • 4 years ago
Prolog Heritage
A French-language documentary on the history of Prolog, created in Marseille by Alain Colmerauer in the early 1970s, with interviews of many people involved. It traces the origins of logic programming and later developments of the language.
Topic match · Programming language design
25:23The Computer Programme (1): It's Happening Now (Introduction to Computing)
84K views • 14 years ago
Jesús Zafra (Lobogris)
The first episode of the BBC's 1982 television series The Computer Programme, introducing home computing to a general audience. It surveys mainframes, early personal computers such as the BBC Micro and Commodore PET, and the changing computer market of the time.
Topic match · Demoscene & retrocomputing
24:05Edsger W. Dijkstra on Dutch TV
45K views • 12 years ago
Yin Wang
A 2001 VPRO Noorderlicht documentary episode, filmed in Austin in 2000, visiting Edsger Dijkstra and his views on thinking as a discipline. It is in Dutch with English subtitles.