Alan Kay's EuroPython Keynote

Brad Fuller brad at sonaural.com
Thu Jul 6 23:21:20 UTC 2006


Giovanni Corriga wrote:
> 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.
>   
I did see the comments about graphics, but nothing about
"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"

I do recall Alan saying something about Python, similar to this
statement, before. Don't remember where.

brad

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