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Sketchpad: A man-machine graphical communication system

Ivan Sutherland's famous thesis has been rereleased in a new electronic edition. This is a freely downloadable and high-quality PDF version created by Alan Blackwell and Kerry Rodden.

By Luke Gorrie at 2004-08-09 12:40 | History | other blogs | 11452 reads

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I really want to call

I really want to call Sketchpad the first visual programming language, the first "live" language, and perhaps the first OO language, but I get a lot of push back on whether or not Sketchpad is really a programming language. So it has constraints and prototypes, but it is extremely limited in its domain. Any ideas?

By Sean McDirmid at Tue, 2013-03-12 08:34 | login or register to post comments

Sketchpad is at least a

Sketchpad is at least a programming experience. :-)

By dmbarbour at Thu, 2013-03-14 21:04 | login or register to post comments