In the video below, computer pioneer Alan Kay discusses a famous video of Sutherland’s Sketchpad demo. This is some nerdy, but important, computer history. Kay says: “I once asked Ivan Sutherland: ‘How could you possibly have done the first interactive graphics program, the first nonprocedural programming language, the first object oriented software system, all in one year? He said, ‘Well, I didn’t know it was hard.’”
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