Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
ALAN KAYSchool is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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