Smalltalk

Alan Kay's 1993 paper on the early history of Smalltalk is drawing renewed attention online. The essay traces how Smalltalk was developed at Xerox PARC and helped shape object-oriented programming, personal computing and modern graphical interfaces. Readers in developer communities are revisiting the text for its account of how pioneering ideas about computing environments first took form.

Alan Kay's account of the early history of Smalltalk is drawing renewed attention, tracing how the pioneering object-oriented programming language took shape at Xerox PARC in the 1970s. Readers are revisiting Kay's reflections on personal computing, the Dynabook vision, and the design decisions that shaped modern software, with the piece circulating widely among developers and programming-history enthusiasts.