# Literatur

## [Sketchpad Demo (1963)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6orsmFndx_o)

## [PYGMALION: A Creative Programming Environment (1975)](https://worrydream.com/refs/Smith_DC_1975_-_Pygmalion.pdf)
by David Canfield Smith, inventor of Icons and one of the pioneers of the modern GUI

People remember things in terms of pictures
Images are the primary component of creative thought

## [Visual Programming Languages: A Survey (1997)](vpl.pdf)
Visual Programming Languages -> VPLs

## [Cube: Programming in Three Dimensions (1996)](https://marc.najork.org/papers/jvlc1996.pdf)

Humans are really fast at processing visual information, so when we display part of the programs structure in a visual way it is easier for us to reason about it.

Cube is a higher order programming language, meaning that you can pass functions and other higher order things to other functions. Seems nice?