A great Alan Kay quote

[Francis Girard]

"""
Today he is Senior Fellow at Hewlett-Packard Labs and president of Viewpoints 
Research Institute, a nonprofit organization whose goal is to change how 
children are educated by creating a sample curriculum with supporting media 
for teaching math and science. This curriculum will use Squeak as its media, 
and will be highly interactive and constructive. Kay’s deep interests in 
children and education have been the catalysts for many of his ideas over the 
years. 
"""

I love him.

It's also interesting to see GUIs with windows, mouse (etc.), which apparently 
find their origin in is mind, probably comes from the desire to introduce 
computers to children.

Francis Girard

Le mercredi 9 Février 2005 20:29, Grant Edwards a écrit :
> On 2005-02-09, James <spiralx at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Surely
> >
> > "Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then
> > being a real problem in the longer term."
> >
> > is better lol ;)
>
> That was the other one I really liked, and Perl was the first
> language I thought of when I saw the phrase "agglutination of
> features".  C++ was the second one.
>
> --
> Grant Edwards                   grante             Yow!  -- In 1962, you
> could at               buy a pair of SHARKSKIN visi.com            SLACKS,
> with a "Continental Belt," for $10.99!!