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Larry Tesler Has Died

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Re: Larry Tesler Has Died

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Post by drudru11 »

atdrummond wrote: post #35

Larry kindly traded letters with me when I was a young man attempting to learn programming via Object Pascal. Eventually, my mom made me write him a check for all the postage he had spent. In addition to sending me at least two letters a week for just around a decade, he shipped me dozens of books and manuals. One year for the holidays, someone sent me 4 large FedEx boxes filled with networking gear I desperately nee…

Great story to honor him. Maybe it is now time for you to be the ‘Larry’ in others lives.

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Post by timClicks »

linguae wrote: post #45

I was just eating lunch across the street from Apple's headquarters in Cupertino when I read the news. The John Sculley era of Apple has received a lot of criticism. With that being said, one of the aspects of this era that I'm most impressed with is the work that came out of Apple's Advanced Technology Group. During this time period Apple was serious about advancing the state of research in the areas of programming…

Was Dylan created by the ATG?

Re: Larry Tesler Has Died

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Post by sabujp »

crobertsbmw wrote: post #69
dooglius wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ha, I was wondering how you managed to reverse the hash and then had a facepalm moment.

I still don’t get it.

i use this one alot, it has various decryption tools and you can apply "recipes" : https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#recipe=From_Hex('Auto')&in...

Re: Larry Tesler Has Died

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Post by jecel »

djrobstep wrote: post #74
dmazin wrote: post #14

He 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 )

Is there somewhere he elaborates on his No Modes philosophy? Is it a blanket rule for him for all interfaces, or just text editors?

See his article "The Smalltalk Environment" in the August 1981 issue of Byte magazine: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08/mode/2up

The basic idea is that modes make the same action (pressing the "D" key, for example) do different things. They make things easier for programmers who want many operations on machines that only have a few possible actions, but they make things hard for the user who have to pay attention to the current mode and know how to navigate from that to the mode where the desired operation is possible.

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Post by haeberli »

timClicks wrote: post #92
linguae wrote: post #45

I was just eating lunch across the street from Apple's headquarters in Cupertino when I read the news. The John Sculley era of Apple has received a lot of criticism. With that being said, one of the aspects of this era that I'm most impressed with is the work that came out of Apple's Advanced Technology Group. During this time period Apple was serious about advancing the state of research in the areas of programming…

Was Dylan created by the ATG?

Dylan was indeed created by a group at ATG Cambridge run by Ike Nassi

Re: Larry Tesler Has Died

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Post by haeberli »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #32

Larry was a great thinker. I got to discuss "vi vs. emacs" at one of the Fellows induction ceremonies held at the Computer History Museum. He could easily articulate counter cases and keep the discussion both productive and quite civil! I first met him while I was visiting my wife at her office in Xerox Business Systems (XBS). He came over to discuss some suggestions to improve the protocol she was working on. I thou…

Eric Schmidt was, as I recall (which was when I was there), at PARC proper, doing his PhD thesis research and writing his thesis. But as Larry Tesler's interaction showed, there were fluid interactions between at least some people at PARC and the XBS and Xerox Star teams.

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Post by hawflakes »

tobr wrote: post #9

Larry Tesler was really convinced of the merits of modeless interfaces. He even got “NOMODES” on his license plate. https://queeniehui.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/designing-intera...

Was at 23andME when he was there, too. We (engineering) had no idea who he was initially but I did notice his license plate "NO MODES." Only after we looked him up and found that he had invented copy-paste did we realize he was a living legend. Sad to see he's passed on.

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Post by haeberli »

jdswain wrote: post #65
kristianp wrote: post #57

There's one thing on his wikipedia page which I think is probably wrong: I don't think Wirth had any involvement with Object Pascal.

I think he did, as a consultant. The main reference I found was an article in MacTech, written by an Apple employee: "Object Pascal is an extension to the Pascal language that was developed at Apple in consultation with Niklaus Wirth, the inventor of Pascal." http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.02/02.12/Ob...

I was (distantly) there, and I recall Wirth being there and visiting.

Re: Larry Tesler Has Died

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Post by yters »

Wow reading the comments sounds like actually a great human being. Help me realize being a jerk is an anti pattern, even though I am sometimes tempted to think otherwise.
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