Future of Coding

By Future of Coding

Pygmalion by David C. Smith

🔊 Play episode (3.1 hours)

Direct episode link

💬 Share episode

Published June 19, 2024 8:37am

If you're anything like Ivan (oof, sorry), you've heard of Pygmalion but never caught more than the gist. Some sort of project from the early 70s, similar to Sketchpad or Smalltalk or something, yet another promising prototype from the early history of our field that failed to take the world by storm. Our stock-in-trade on this show.

But you've probably heard of Programming by Demonstration. And you've certainly heard of icons — you know, those little pictures that have become indelibly part of computing as we know it. Pygmalion is the originator of these concepts… and more!

The...

Return to podcast