Did you find working with video more enjoyable than language design? I could imagine being able to use some of the knowledge you’ve gained from the computer field to video production and then realizing how intuitive it can be.
-Noah
It was more fun than working on LISP, for which I hired into IBM Research. I did enjoy working on the contest to design the Department of Defense language. That was exciting and state of the art of the time. At the time I hired in, I was the chair of the Special Interest Group in Programming Languages, SIGPLAN. I was editor of one magazine and started another at Research, and I chaired or co-chaired 4 conferences.
A lot of the use of computer background was that I’d take on a video project and have a week to write a script. I’d need to suck in all information on the topic, find a general way to view the subject, which the project leaders sometimes found illuminating, and then direct, shoot and edit. I had the position to fight things out with the designers because I understood computers. That led to the projects being much better explained than if non-video people tried to control their own videos. Same as with books. If you’re going to author a book about a language, you REALLY want to be part of the design group rather than a tech writer.
And Abe backed me up. When he first discussed the magazine with me, I told him that I wouldn’t make videos about his projects. I’d make them about the PEOPLE who created his projects. Lo and behold, at the next Research meeting, didn’t Abe explain that that’s what the magazine was going to be about.
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