A History of Programming Languages for 2 Voices
summary
A rapid itinerary that pairs concrete milestones with audio clips and primary sources: a detailed timeline overlays original manuals and papers (lambda calculus, Fortran, Lisp, Smalltalk, Prolog, Miranda, Erlang, Ruby) with curated album excerpts to claim specific historical correspondences between language ideas and musical experiments. The production assembles a living mixtape, cites manifest artifacts, and argues that it covers every significant programming language paradigm while demonstrating the method — evocative juxtapositions that largely succeed at revealing patterns and surprises.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:28Programming and music roots
- 7:44Early computing reinvention
- 15:40Languages for the people
- 18:30Psychedelic computing art
- 26:561980s underground
- 34:281990s explosion
- 37:19Keep creating
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