Hear us Roar
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Daddy, Are We There Yet? A Discussion with Alan Kay
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2004-02-13 22:55:57 |
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mhamrick23
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" A recurring theme in our conversation is that much is lost to the programming community because we don't have a good sense of history."
Anyone interested in the history of computing should check out not only the Computer History Museum, but also Bruce Damer's DigiBarn.
I donated my Valdocs system, NeXT Slab, and BeBox to the DigiBarn. Each represented not so much a hardware revolution, but more of a change in the way users interacted with their environments.
The programming environment that came with NeXTStep was, at the time, nothing short of a miracle. I'm happy to see it make it's return as MacOS X.
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