Alan Kay
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Alan Kay, vid UCLA, är en respekterad amerikansk programmerare och Turingprisvinnare (2003) som under sin tid vid Xerox PARC på 70-talet hjälpte till att ta fram Smalltalk och det första fönsterbaserade GUI:t. Han är dessutom en av fädrarna till konceptet objektorientering samt bärbara datorer. Nu för tiden finner man honom aktiv inom Squeak-communityn.
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Citat
- "I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind."
- "Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. [..] The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Really smart people with reasonable funding can do just about anything that doesn't violate too many of Newton's Laws!"
- "If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
- "One of the tricks here is to get away from thinking that programs have to be composed with only a simple text editor."
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Externa länkar
- Intervju med Wired (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.01/kay.hillis_pr.html)
- Alan Kay's Talks at OOPSLA (http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2004-11.html#e2004-11-06T21_03_42.htm)
