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I’m baffled that I never saw the name Alan Kay. Given, I did not read everything. Expected it to be in bright lights, based on the story I was told ;) (That’s
by b33j0r 4y ago
I’m baffled that I never saw the name Alan Kay.
Given, I did not read everything. Expected it to be in bright lights, based on the story I was told ;)
(That’s my malformed question)
- johndoe0815 4y agoThere are a lot of famous persons involved in the history of Smalltalk, without who we would have nothing to write about here. Alan Kay was certainly the driving force, but let's not forget Dan Ingalls, Adele Goldberg, Ted Kaehler, Diana Merry, Scott Wallace, and Peter Deutsch (who is also the founder of Aladdin Enterprises and creator of Ghostscript) - and all others I forgot to mention here... One other very important person related to this endeavor is Mario Wolczko, who ported Smalltalk 80 to the Perq workstation (his master thesis at Manchester University) and extracted and distributed the Smalltalk 80 VM image - see http://www.wolczko.com/st80/ http://www.wolczko.com/st80/. Later, Mario worked on the SELF language (and many other projects, of course) at Sun Labs.
- Stratoscope 4y agoThank you for mentioning Scott! He is an old friend of mine, but I'm afraid we have been out of touch the last few years. (My fault, not his.) You have reminded me to drop him a note to say hello.