Hi Dan,


on Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:47:15 +0100, you <Dan at SqueakLand.org> wrote:

> "Klaus D. Witzel" <klaus.witzel at cobss.com>  wrote...
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>> as you can see from the below, a grandfather of Smalltalk (Peter Naur:  
>> Algol, Backus-Naur-Form BNF) receives the 2005 Turing award.
>
> With all due respect to Peter Naur and his significant contributions to  
> computer science, I'm not entirely comfortable with the characterization  
> "Grandfather of Smalltalk".  He is certainly grandfather of a lot of  
> current programming technology but, as one who was present at the birth  
> of Smalltalk, I can say that our entire focus was to provide a  
> fundamentally different computing model from that of Algol.

Sure, that is what evolution is good for, at least :) Let me add that I  
respect your position, by all means.

I was thinking about Algol->Simula->Smalltalk when I saw the grandfather  
relation. Hope you don't mind :)

BTW: I'm keen to see whom ACM will credit the invention of virtual memory,  
or does anybody know that this was already done?

/Klaus

>  Alan Kay, in his History of Programming Languages article gives an  
> excellent account of the genetic material that went into Smalltalk, and  
> I would recommend that article to anyone who is interested in Squeak's  
> intellectual lineage.



> 	- Dan
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