Alan Kay wrote:
I'm glad that he has finally come to appreciate OOP.
There are two kinds of people on this list. Those who can tell when Alan
is joking and those that can't. :-D
Don't know which I am but I can at least say that the OOP that is in
Oberon is not what Alan had in mind when he
Hi folks
I was going to let this go ... but there are some important historical facts
that are at least fascinating -- and they certainly put some of this into
better context.
Many of these threads can be chased back to the development of the Algol
language and especially the B5000 computer
P.S. I should have directly pointed out that there were many earlier systems
that did the experiment of taking a single language and writing everything in
it.
(Some earlier than Smalltalk, etc., although it was interesting for being
early, small, and very high level)
Cheers,
Alan
Alan,
thanks for the detailed history!
1966 was the year I entered grad school (having programmed for 4-5 years,
but essentially knowing nothing about computer science). Shortly after
encounters with and lightning bolts from the sky induced by Sketchpad and
Simula, I found the Euler papers
The Flex Machine was the omelet you have to throw away to clean the pan, so I
haven't put any effort into saving that history. But there were 4 or 5 pretty
good things and 4 or 5 really bad things that helped the Alto-Smalltalk
effort a few years later. I'd say that the huge factors after
Hi
I briefly remember Alan and other members of VPRI doing a presentation of the
text layout engine while they were here for a short visit to the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I'm currently dealing with some layout work in
Morphic and would like to take a deeper look at the
vpri.og is working for me.
Are you talking about Gezira/Nile?
http://www.vpri.org/vp_wiki/index.php/Gezira
Julian
On 01/09/2011, at 5:40 AM, nchen@mac.com wrote:
Hi
I briefly remember Alan and other members of VPRI doing a presentation of the
text layout engine while they were here
vpri.org just came back up a few hours ago.
I was talking about Text Field Spec for LObjects at
http://www.vpri.org/vp_wiki/index.php/Main_Page. I found the old image with
the prototype and have been able to download it and play with it. Ted Kaehler
has also been kind enough to answer some
