Alan Kay's EuroPython Keynote

Giovanni Corriga giovanni at corriga.net
Thu Jul 6 22:57:22 UTC 2006


Il giorno gio, 06/07/2006 alle 15.46 -0700, Brad Fuller ha scritto:
> Serge Stinckwich wrote:
> > There is a report of Guido Van Rossum about an Alan Kay talk in his
> > web log here : http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=167318
> >
> this is sad to read:
> 
> Alan believes that Python has a much larger mindshare than Smalltalk or
> Squeak, and that because of this a similar environment in Python will
> have a greater chance of succeeding than the current Squeak one. Also,
> the $100 laptop already has Python, and Alan is of course hoping that a
> Squeak-like environment will be part of it, so this appears expedient.
> (At the Shuttleworth summit in April
> <http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=156162> I believe
> Alan also suggested that Squeak is suffering from its extremely simple
> graphics model; apparently it cannot benefit from graphics accelerator
> cards because of its platform-independent architecture. Python on the
> other hand already has bindings to OpenGL and DirectX, for example.)

In the comments to this thread, GvR acknowledges that this part of his
report was actually a misunderstanding on his part.

	Giovanni




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