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Larry Tesler Has Died

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Re: Larry Tesler Has Died

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Post by wnoise »

fsckboy wrote: post #25
jolmg wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Ah! That's why vi's letter-named registers are written to with the q command.

Re: Larry Tesler Has Died

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Post by alariccole »

alariccole wrote: post #34

This breaks my heart. I used to work next to Larry—literally sat next to him—on Yahoo’s central design team. We were in frequent meetings together, but didn’t talk one-on-one often. One evening commuting from work, during one of many Caltrain failures, he noticed me as I waited outside the train and offered me a ride home. I remember sitting nervously in the car, a bit awestruck, and I finally got up the courage to a…

To clarify, as the dialogue could be construed otherwise, Larry was actually very humble. While he was not as famous as he should have been, he had so much influence on the industry, it could easily go to your head. He was very approachable and helpful, and overall a generous and kind person. Will be sorely missed.

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Post by bobbiechen »

Rest in peace. It's incredible how young computing is, many of his contributions are so fundamental.

From a guest lecture Larry Tesler gave at CMU in 2014 [1]:

Click to select an insertion point. Double click to select a word. Click and drag to select a passage. All of those were new. Type to replace the selection by new text [...] I think that was not unprecedented, but it wasn’t common. Cut to move the selection to a buffer, Pentti Kanurva had done it, tvedit. Paste to replace the selection by the buffer. Again, Pentti had done that [...] Control B to bold the selection, I and U and so on [...] All of these things were introduced in Gypsy, 1975.

Gypsy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsy_(software)

[1] https://scs.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=...

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Jupe wrote: post #60
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…

Cute... 53414e544120414e442048495320574f524b53484f50 = SANTA AND HIS WORKSHOP

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Post by jdswain »

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...

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Post by musicale »

aresant wrote: post #19

A career in full from his own CV: "Board director for a FTSE 250 company, vp in three Fortune 500 corporations, president of two small software firms. 32 years building and managing teams of software and hardware engineers, designers, researchers, scientists, product managers and marketers to deliver innovative customer-centered products." http://www.nomodes.com/Tesler_CV_Public.pdf

Honest but overly modest summary. I picture hiring managers or AI throwing his resumé away because he didn't have enough experience and was "out of date."

The Apple and Xerox segments are nothing short of astonishing.

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Post by dooglius »

Jupe wrote: post #60
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…

Cute... 53414e544120414e442048495320574f524b53484f50 = SANTA AND HIS WORKSHOP

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

Re: Larry Tesler Has Died

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Post by raphman »

jolmg wrote: post #15
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 )

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…

FWIW, Larry also contributed some of his historical knowledge to the Talk page [1] of the Wikipedia article and also edited the article himself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cut,_copy,_and_paste

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