Yep, the very first OOP language, developed at the Xerox Palo Alto Research
Center (PARC), as was the concept of the GUI based on an OOP OS, the
enthernet network, the notebook and PDA computer, the "mouse", and most of
what we readily accept as the standard computing paradigm today. At the
time, of the top 100 computer scientists in the world at the time, 98 of
them were at the PARC. Xerox implemented most of this on the Xerox
Star-class machines in the late '70s. Never heard of it? It's because the
Xerox marketing machine was/is so inept that, if Xerox had purchased
Kentucky Fried Chicken, they would have marketed the product as "Hot, Dead
Chicken". It was the Xerox demo of the Star to Jobs that inspired the Lisa.
Regards,
Gary
----Original Message Follows----
From: "Laurent Daudelin" <laurent_daudelin_at_fanniemae.com>
To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
Subject: Re: [NTLK] Small Talk
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:12:15 -0400
It's also the mother of all object-oriented programming languages.
-Laurent.
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