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by lolinder 1323 days ago
The lecture in question is not obscure, it's one of the most influential papers in Computer Science and is foundational to a lot of modern PL research. It's currently sitting at 4166 citations on Google Scholar--that's twice as many as Dijkstra's "goto considered harmful".

In general I'm all for including context, but in this case and for this audience (people on HN interested in useless programming languages) a reference to the paper is plenty.