Surprised I have not heard of him. He seems quite significant.
Larry Tesler Has Died
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#22A reminder that our industry is very young still, and many who laid its foundations are still with us today, but won’t be forever.
There is no better time than now for collecting oral history, interviewing people, asking them about their stories, etc. All of this knowledge and stories can get lost very very fast.
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#23I loved Larry Tesler’s work. No modes!
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#24Sad news; total legend. folklore.org has a lot of stories featuring Larry — short stories on an era of computing that has faded around the edges. RIP.
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#25He gave us so much more than cut, copy, paste. It's clear from all the design history books that I've read that he's a legend.[1] NO MODES! https://itsthedatastupid.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/nomodes... [1] One of the more rare sources for Larry Tesler's contributions is his interview for Bill Moggridge's Designing Interactions ( http://www.designinginteractions.com/interviews/LarryTesler )
The Wikipedia article for Cut, Copy, and Paste[1] seems to have this bit that's cited to that book: > Inspired by early line and character editors that broke a move or copy operation into two steps—between which the user could invoke a preparatory action such as navigation—Lawrence G. Tesler (Larry Tesler) proposed the names "cut" and "copy" for the first step and "paste" for the second step. Beginning in 1974, he an…
TECO from the 1960's had more than cut and paste, multiple storage slots called "q registers" (they were named with letters) into which you could put text from the main buffer, and from which you could retrieve it back. Text regions in the buffer were referred to by numeric ranges, some number of characters forward or back relative to the current cursor position, with additional notions such as "here to beginning/end of line" or "n lines back/forward from cursor"
TECO commands were typed in as code, essentially, and that code could also be saved and run as macros.
it was extremely powerful, such that emacs was originally written as TECO Edit MACros.
Re: Larry Tesler Has Died
#26A reminder that our industry is very young still, and many who laid its foundations are still with us today, but won’t be forever. There is no better time than now for collecting oral history, interviewing people, asking them about their stories, etc. All of this knowledge and stories can get lost very very fast.
And, pretty basic, but thank them for their contribution. Plenty of the stuff we take for granted should not be taken for granted at all, it took a lot of dedicated people working on machines that were severely limited to give us the luxuries we have today and believe that it has always been so. It wasn't.
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#27Two tech legends left us this week: Larry Tesler and Bert Sutherland. Both played key roles at PARC, the research center Xerox started that sparked large chunks of what we use today. Regarding Tesler: I sat next to him when I flew back from interviewing at Microsoft. He was in the last row on the plane. I saw his Blackberry, assumed he was a nerd. He had just left Apple, was on the committee that hired Steve Jobs. He…
Also Peter Montgomery.
Legend in cryptography who created many algorithms for fast and secure elliptic curve cryptography.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Montgomery_(mathematicia...
Re: Larry Tesler Has Died
#28I think you guys dehumanize these people by reducing them to one or two sentences about computers. You havent lost this man. You didnt even know him.
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#29He gave us so much more than cut, copy, paste. It's clear from all the design history books that I've read that he's a legend.[1] NO MODES! https://itsthedatastupid.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/nomodes... [1] One of the more rare sources for Larry Tesler's contributions is his interview for Bill Moggridge's Designing Interactions ( http://www.designinginteractions.com/interviews/LarryTesler )
The Wikipedia article for Cut, Copy, and Paste[1] seems to have this bit that's cited to that book: > Inspired by early line and character editors that broke a move or copy operation into two steps—between which the user could invoke a preparatory action such as navigation—Lawrence G. Tesler (Larry Tesler) proposed the names "cut" and "copy" for the first step and "paste" for the second step. Beginning in 1974, he an…
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Re: Larry Tesler Has Died
#30A reminder that our industry is very young still, and many who laid its foundations are still with us today, but won’t be forever. There is no better time than now for collecting oral history, interviewing people, asking them about their stories, etc. All of this knowledge and stories can get lost very very fast.
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