The big surprise is that it didn't happen in 1970
Gary

>Thanks Dan --
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>You (especially) made the ideas manifest so we could really think 
>about them and then coevolve them.
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>Cheers,
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>Alan
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>At 1:05 PM -0700 4/20/04, Dan Ingalls wrote:
>>Folks -
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>>It's a delight to forward this release from the ACM.  It says it all 
>>...except it's actually bit modest about the original spark if you 
>>ask me.  Others on the team did a lot to make it real, but the cool 
>>idea behind Smalltalk was all Alan's.
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>>	http://www.squeakland.org/images/news/html/turing03.htm
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>>You GO guy!
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>>	- Dan
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