On 2007-07-13, Wayne Brehaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So Kay actually invented NONE of the concepts that make a PL an > OOPL. He only stated the concepts concisely and named the > result OOP,
Naming and categorizing something shouldn't be underestimated as an accomplishment, though. The exercise can have profound results. For example, consider "marriage." ;) > Under a claim of Academic Impunity (or was that "Immunity"), > here's another historical tid-bit. In a previous empolyment we > once had a faculty applicant from CalTech who knew we were > using Simula as our introductory and core language in our CS > program, so he visited Xerox PARC before coming for his > inteview. His estimate of Alan Kay and Smalltalk at that time > (early 80s) was that "They wanted to implement Simula but > didn't understand it--so they invented Smalltalk and now don't > understand _it_!" Heh, heh. Thanks for the intersting info. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
