This looks like the IEEE Spectrum article by Tekla Perry done in the 
early 80s. It's perhaps the best single article on PARC that has been 
written. I vaguely recall that it was commisioned because the 
official account by Xerox sounded fishy to some of the Spectrum 
editors, so they got Tekla (with some unofficial help by Michael 
Shrage) to do a bunch of interviews to see if they could publish a 
companion and contrasting article in the same issue (both the 
official one and Tekla's did appear in the same issue).

Fun to see this again....

Cheers,

Alan

At 8:57 AM -0700 6/12/03, Jack Johnson wrote:
>Last night I happened upon a quote by Niklaus Wirth to the effect of:
>
>"You can drink beer or program in C on your own time."
>
>(I assume from a lecture at ETH Zurich), and attempted to Google it for a
>friend this morning, but instead came across this article evidently
>scanned from somewhere else:
>
>http://www.stanford.edu/group/mmdd/SiliconValley/Perry/xerox1.html
>
>Always fun for those of us who weren't there (Hi, Alan).
>
>On a side note, has anyone taken a look at Bluebottle?
>
>http://www.bluebottle.ethz.ch/
>
>-Jack


--