Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
ALAN KAYPerl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
ALAN KAYThe real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
ALAN KAYWhen I first prepared this particular talk…
ALAN KAYThis is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
ALAN KAYThe flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
ALAN KAYEvery technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
ALAN KAYTelevision should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
ALAN KAYThe greatest single programming language ever designed
ALAN KAYHumans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
ALAN KAYKnowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
ALAN KAYArtificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
ALAN KAYAnd when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
ALAN KAYThey don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
ALAN KAYI hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
ALAN KAYThe perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
ALAN KAYThey don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
ALAN KAY