[Squeak-fr] Fwd: Slashdot reports on Alan Kay, HP

[Noury Bouraqadi]

Alan Kay quitte HP...

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> De: Blake <blake at kingdomrpg.com>
> Date: 22 juillet 2005 09:10:52 GMT+02:00
> À: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"  
> <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Objet: Slashdot reports on Alan Kay, HP
> Répondre à: The general-purpose Squeak developers list  
> <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
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> "Wow. Hewlett-Packard has disbanded its Advanced Software Research team
> and sent its leader, reknowned programmer Alan Kay, packing. From  
> today's
> Good Morning Silicon Valley: 'HP is bidding adieu to legendary Silicon
> Valley technologist Alan Kay. A founder of Xerox's Palo Alto Research
> Center, Kay -- who once said, "The best way to predict the future is to
> invent it" -- was instrumental in the development of the windowing GUI  
> and
> modern object-oriented programming. He envisioned a laptop computer  
> long
> before the first ones rolled out and his Smalltalk programming language
> was a predecessor to Sun Microsystems' Java. Hard to believe HP's  
> cutting
> him loose.' Maybe Apple will hire him."
>
> Incredulous reactions at Slashdot:
>
> http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/22/ 
> 0018240&tid=173&tid=156
>
>
>
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