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Resurfaced: Alan Kay's 1993 History of Smalltalk
Original: The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)
Alan Kay's 1993 paper on the early history of Smalltalk is drawing renewed attention online. The essay traces how Smalltalk was developed at Xerox PARC and helped shape object-oriented programming, personal computing and modern graphical interfaces. Readers in developer communities are revisiting the text for its account of how pioneering ideas about computing environments first took form.
Why now: The classic essay is being recirculated and discussed by programmers interested in computing history.
Evidence
- The Early History of Smalltalk (1993) · _reza · 119
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