HistoricalPerformances
Some notable historical performances are mentioned here with archive footage links where available. Feel free to contact us to tell us of any missing ones- we'd especially like documentation.
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80s FORTH era
George Lewis claimed that live programming was a frequent activity in this period; though not an audience focus. I don't know of any projection of live code pre slub / rohrhuber ...Documentation is scarce. Please tell us if you have any archived sources!
The Hub were using FORTH and the audience could wander around their computers.
A slashdot comment by an anonymous poster talks about a project called "masked men" which involved coding lisp live on stage in 1987.
The earliest documented performance of live coding we know of right now: 1985 Ron Kuivila STEIM Amsterdam
HMSL, the Hierarchical Music Specification Language, was widely used for composition and live performance. It was a Forth-based object-oriented music language with time-stamped MIDI input and output. DSP 56000 tools were added around 1990. HMSL also had cross-platform GUI tools similar to Java's AWT, but more primitive. Coding was often done while the audience was taking their seats and during intermissions. Live coding was common during informal presentations.
Earlier still (before interpreted languages)
Text pieces, happenings in the 60s-70s? A specific example was provided by Click Nilson Click Nilson's text piece
Renaissance maths tournaments Fior vs Tartaglia on the cubic equation (not actually peformative unfortunately, this public competition took 40-50 days!)
Greek philosophers debating...