I wouldn't be a subscriber to this list if not for Charles Moore and his
Forth system, which led me to recognize great ideas in Smalltalk, which led
me here.

-Carl

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Reuben Thomas
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 2:56 PM
To: Fundamentals of New Computing
Subject: Re: [fonc] The Elements of Computing Systems

On 5 January 2011 16:43, Alan Kay <[email protected]> wrote:
> On the other hand, I personally cherish the real inventions and inventors
in
> our field -- for example John McCarthy, Ivan Sutherland, etc.,

Including, surely, Charles Moore, to describe whose work the following:

> who also
> built on the past but in startling and even almost magical ways to produce
> qualitatively different and more powerful POVs which are so needed in our
> design-centric field.

might have been expressly written?

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