Alan Kay's talk at UCLA – Feb 2024 [video]

Post by lproven » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 9:52 PM UTC

angiosperm wrote: post #40

There are sound reasons why no substantial system in common use is coded in Smalltalk. Kay could have spent the decades since his time at PARC figuring out why, and remedying them. One of the reasons is that O-O is just one of several important ways discovered to organize software. Any big enough problem will have places for each. Specialization is for insects.

Post by octed » Sun, Mar 10, 2024, 4:54 AM UTC

infinite8s wrote: post #118

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Do you know anywhere where one can look into dynamicland more deeply? I've been interested in playing around with it for a while (hopefully I can get my hands on a projector lol) but have never found any details. Omar Rizwan's website had a cool post on geokit but that was all I managed to find.

Omar has a new project in the same vein as DynamicLand called Folk - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39241472

Post by ProllyInfamous » Mon, Mar 11, 2024, 2:47 AM UTC

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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC This follows Alan Kay (as well as dozens of others) through their groundbreaking research at Xerox's research lab in Palo Alto, primarily during the 70s. You will learn how these visionaries and personalities were largely at war with themselves, while HQ (2,000 miles away) largely ignored any of their marvelous outputs... until it was too late. ---- I just checked this morning, and wa…

PARC (at least the UI that came out of it) is replicable in terms of a new UI paradigm: The virtual headset is criminally underutilized. How much is computer interface restricted by the little window (even a 4k TV) we get as the view into the computer? The promise to me of a VR headset UI is having an arbitrary amount of real estate to display information (and not just 2D!) And here's the thing about a good VR UI: it…

Post by morphle » Mon, Mar 11, 2024, 11:28 AM UTC

lproven wrote: post #132

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Not all is publicly available and most needs recompiling and explanation. I prefer email.

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Post by gjvc » Wed, Mar 13, 2024, 4:28 PM UTC

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We tried that, and it worked briefly. Where and when?

In the early days of the internet up to the early years of the web.