Fun article

diegogomezdeck at consultar.com diegogomezdeck at consultar.com
Thu Jun 12 18:36:44 UTC 2003


Nice article... In a paragraph I read:

> "It took about two weeks to write 10 lines of code," Kay said,
> "and it was very hard to see whether those 10 lines of code would
> work." Kay spent the two weeks thinking from 4:00 to 8:00 a.m.
> each day and then discussing his ideas with Ingails. When Kay was
> done, Ingails coded the first Smalltalk in Basic on the Nova 800,
> because that was the only language available at the time with decent
> debugging facilities.

Where can I find these 10 lines of code?

Cheers,

Diego


> 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





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