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 (DIR) Post #AV4mIsC2GW5YZrYau0 by harrymccracken@sfba.social
       2023-04-27T02:53:02Z
       
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       Alan Kay, via prerecorded video, says that the fact tech has been funded by companies in search of “mass monetization” for decades has taken us away from the ideals expressed by Xerox PARC’s Alto.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVRQoIdAI9xBC2uAiG by John@socks.masto.host
       2023-04-27T02:57:47Z
       
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       @harrymccracken I'm old enough to remember Alan Kay back in the day, and he has always been pithy.  But I would say it was more a low level programmer decision that we don't all do Smalltalk.  You could say for instance that John Carmack was looking for mass markets .. but in reality he was looking for runtime performance.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVRQrtDgi94pXbhTSi by mdhughes@appdot.net
       2023-04-27T11:49:05Z
       
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       @harrymccracken … Is he unaware of what kind of company Xerox is/was? They failed to get to market effectively, but if they had, they'd have monetized Alto/Star/Smalltalk to death. They weren't altruists funding R&D.Developers & companies largely rejected Smalltalk because it's intolerably slow and hard to build large software in. Overlapping windows, icons, and menus were much more useful, and so those caught on, once reimplemented in fast languages.