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CAD program using GUI, procedural programming and inheritance - from 1963, (youtube.com)
51 points by mixmax on Sept 14, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



here is the wikipedia page for the program: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad

Truly impressive and lightyears ahead of its time.


Beautiful


alan-kay: "how could you have possibly done the first interactive-graphics, the first non-procedural programming language, first object-oriented software-system all in 1 year" ?

ivan-s: "i didn't know it was hard" !!!




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