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So, Smalltalk didn't really exist until 1971/72... http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/ http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/ Right after
by Smalltalk-70 8y ago
So, Smalltalk didn't really exist until 1971/72...
http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/ http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/
Right after New Years 1971,
Bob Taylor scored an enormous
coup by attracting most of
the struggling Berkeley
Computer Corp to PARC.
In the summer of '71 I refined
the KiddiKomp idea into a
tighter design called miniCOM.
It used a bit-slice approach
like the NOVA 1200, had a
bit-map display, a pointing
device, a choice of "secondary" (
really tertiary) storages,
and a language I now called
"Smalltalk" - as in "programming
should be a matter of ..."
and "children should program in ...".
This Smalltalk language (
today labeled -71) was very
influenced by FLEX, PLANNER,
LOGO, META II, and my own
derivatives from them. It
was a kind of parser with
object-attachment that
executed tokens directly.
But, rounding errors and such, so maybe 1970 is kinda okay...