Haha while we're sharing, I missed the interactivity of a Basic I used as a kid (the REPL was also the editor,) which led me from Java to Obj-C (more dynamic, but memory management sucked to worry about) to Perl and Ruby (dynamism with UNIX integration, got my garbage collector back) then Lisp and Squeak (conceptual clarity and simplicity, and I had ceased to care as much about UNIX as long as my bits were portable,) whereupon I arrived at this list. It's been a fun trek:)
On Jan 7, 2011, at 2:06 PM, "Carl Gundel" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > > -- > http://rrt.sc3d.org > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
