video on the birth of BASIC

[Don Shepherd]

(02-28-2019 09:00 PM)BruceH Wrote:  Thanks Don, for the pointer. A nicely made documentary, one where people just talk rather than stand on mountain tops being filmed by helicopter just to deliver half a line.

The YouTube comments contain this classic: "It's not Ron Doyman, it's Von Neumann, probably the most famous guy, how can the subtitler not know this guy..."

Yeah, I noticed that too, along with some other subtitling goofs. I have a hunch that the subtitler was not a human being.

I think that this video was shown at the BASIC 50th anniversary celebration at Dartmouth in 2014. I had planned to attend that but the money I was saving for the trip was "re-programmed", probably for some Ebay purchase I don't even remember now.