Yes, perhaps the best example :-) On Sun, 3 Jul 2022, 12:01 David Crayford, <[email protected]> wrote:
> IIRC Lisp was designed in 1956. That must have been ground breaking at the > time. > > > On 3 Jul 2022, at 18:51, Rupert Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The thing about Smalltalk (and a lot of other developments) is just how > old > > they are. And we keep re-inventing some things. Smalltalk was remarkable > in > > 1970-ish. Lambdas in Algol-68, but it wasn't the first I believe, and > they > > can be tracked back further to maths in 1932. > > > > Great insights in the 1968 NATO conference on "Software Engineering". > > > > TDD can be traced back to awk and further bsck than that, I reckon. > > > > I think a lot of Alan Kay's energy is frustration that everything takes > so > > long! > > > > Roops > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
