On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Alan Kay <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, part of it is that the 15 year old was exceptional -- his name is > Steve Putz, and as with several others of our children programmers -- such > as Bruce Horn, who was the originator of the Mac Finder -- became a very > good professional. > > And that Smalltalk (basically Smalltalk-72) was quite approachable for > children. We also had quite a few exceptional 12 year old girls who did > remarkable applications. > I was curious, so I googled a bit (impressive how easy it is, these days, to find something within a couple of minutes)
The girls you are most likely talking about would be: Marion Goldeen and Susan Hamet, who created a painiting and a OOP-Illustration system, respectively. I've found some additional details and illustrations here: http://www.manovich.net/26-kay-03.pdf What is truly remarkable IMO, is Smalltalk (even -72). Because these children might have been exceptional, but IIUC is not like they were, say, a forth-generation of mathematicians and programmers who learned how to assemble a computer at age 3 :) Best -- Fernando Cacciola SciSoft Consulting, Founder http://www.scisoft-consulting.com _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
