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Re:Why MIT Switched from Scheme to Python (2009) by mrcsparker on Friday April 21, 2017 @11:05PM (#14170912)
Thank you so much for linking this video. I had no idea it existed. Watching that lecture was so much fun.

I wish that there was a camera pointing to the crowd when he said the more controversial things.

I didn't know that Sussman hired Stallman. Their work changed our lives.

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Re:Why MIT Switched from Scheme to Python (2009) by gavinpc on Saturday April 22, 2017 @12:28AM (#14171115)
This is excerpted (as the "technology" segment) of another great video, Bret Victor's "Humane Representation of Thought." (at about thirty minutes in)

https://vimeo.com/115154289

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