On May 14, 2009, at 10:20 AM, Sarah Allen wrote:
Hi,
I'm doing some last minute prep for my intro class on Shoes later
this morning (11am PST) and I plan to do a brief history of
computers (with content borrowed from: http://www.slideshare.net/BethAdamczyk/highlights-in-computer-history
) and I want to add the invention of the Internet, Web, Ruby and
finally Shoes.
Can anyone help me with the final bit of the timeline? I can easily
lookup most stuff, but for shoes I keep finding sites about footwear.
Thanks so much,
Sarah
http://www.ultrasaurus.com
Off the top of my head...
Shoes' history is very much tied in to H-ety H's (that's Hackety Hack,
for the uninitiated) history, in that _why originally implemented H-
ety H on top of Mozilla, only to find that he couldn't get cross-
platform goodness from it the way he desired. So, from there _why
wrote Shoes to be the new GUI (gooey?) library from which he could
create a truly cross-platform H-ety H.
Of course, H-ety H's history goes back further still. For reference,
there's _why's essay on the little coder's predicament (http://whytheluckystiff.net/articles/theLittleCodersPredicament.html
). However, if you really want the back-story (though I don't know if
you'll be able to finish it before 11...) I highly recommend "The
Early History of Smalltalk" (http://www.smalltalk.org/smalltalk/TheEarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk_V.html
).
Cheers,
Josh
