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Other than the huge list you can get from Wikipedia, the one that blew my mind recently was STEPS, a research project he was involved in a few years ago: http:
by badsock 11y ago
Other than the huge list you can get from Wikipedia, the one that blew my mind recently was STEPS, a research project he was involved in a few years ago:
http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011004_steps11.pdf http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011004_steps11.pdf [PDF]
- corysama 11y agoHere's a long vid of Kay showing off the fruits of STEPS and doing his job to remind us that because we forgot about the work done in the 50s-70s, we've spent the last 40 years rediscovering it and are only recently starting to catch back up. https://vimeo.com/82301919 https://vimeo.com/82301919 It's important to note that he is giving his presentation using STEPS' custom productivity suite; running on STEPS' custom OS; both of which were compiled using STEPS' custom languages and custom compilers all the way down to the assemblers. And, the whole package (OS, compilers and all) totals well under 100K lines of code with no external, non-STEPs code introduced.
- davidgrenier 11y agoI had seen that video before... I found it upsetting as most of it was bragging and ranting, am I the only one who noticed? There was no material in that video that anyone could use and following the above article (http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/contrib/EarlyHistoryST.html http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/contrib/EarlyHistoryST.html) also was written by Kay himself (which I haven't read yet but will do)... I'm starting to wonder whether the reputation is self made.
- davidgrenier 11y agoSTEPS looks like a new project from 2006 with this 5-year progress report published in 2011... I can hardly believe Kay is recognized for that being that it's far too recent and none of it is mainstream.