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Alan Kay's 1993 account of Smalltalk's early history resurfaces
Original: The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)
Alan Kay's 1993 essay 'The Early History of Smalltalk' is drawing renewed attention. The paper recounts how Kay and his colleagues at Xerox PARC developed Smalltalk in the 1970s, shaping object-oriented programming, personal computing and graphical user interfaces. Readers are sharing and discussing the historical account, reflecting ongoing interest in the roots of modern software design.
Why now: The essay is being recirculated and discussed by programmers interested in computing history.
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Evidence
- The Early History of Smalltalk (1993) · _reza · 109
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