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Alan Kay's 1993 Account of Smalltalk's Early History Resurfaces
Original: The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)
A 1993 paper by Alan Kay recounting the early history of the Smalltalk programming language is drawing renewed attention online. The essay traces how Kay and his colleagues at Xerox PARC developed Smalltalk in the 1970s, shaping ideas about object-oriented programming, personal computing and user interfaces that influenced later languages and systems. Readers are revisiting the text as a foundational document of modern software history.
Why now: The essay is being widely shared and read as a classic firsthand account of how modern programming and personal computing ideas originated.
Evidence
- The Early History of Smalltalk (1993) · _reza · 120
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