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In the heavy weights league, there was no silly-slapping or hair pulling between Rob Pike and Luca Cardelli vs Alan Kay and Dan Ingalls over "Squeak": http://l
by mahmud 17y ago
In the heavy weights league, there was no silly-slapping or hair pulling between Rob Pike and Luca Cardelli vs Alan Kay and Dan Ingalls over "Squeak":
http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/Squeak.pdf http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/Squeak.pdf [A New Jersey approach to the GUI, 1985]
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http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=263754&coll=portal&dl=ACM http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=263754&coll=portal... [Smalltalk dialect, 1997]
Their stated goals are identical, each more identical than the other.
- mark_h 17y agoI always wondered about that; there's an excellent tech-talk by Rob Pike on newsqueak here that I watched some time ago: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=810232012617965344 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=810232012617965344 (It includes the same primes example that crops up in the Go tutorial)