Allen Wirfs-Brock

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Dreaming the future of software; Project Editor of the ECMAScript 2015 Language Specification; Reformed Smalltalker.
JavaScript historian: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3386327

Everybody needs a Personal Digital Habitat!
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Show threadAllen Wirfs-BrockFeb 14, 2024
The Xerox mice optical, the Halley is ball bearing.
Allen Wirfs-BrockFeb 14, 2024
Just found a real mouse nest at the back of my office closet
Allen Wirfs-BrockJul 11, 2023
Just discovered a new(??) feature of United Airlines Android app. Is the 3D available seats view really supposed to be useful. Was the cost to develop it really justified.
#badUIs
Allen Wirfs-BrockMar 28, 2023

Volume 1 of CACM ended on a high point in December 1958

"Preliminary report: international algebraic language"
AKA, Algol 58

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/377924.594925

Preliminary report: international algebraic language: Communications of the ACM: Vol 1, No 12

Communications of the ACM
Allen Wirfs-BrockMar 27, 2023

Naming, the oldest problem in computing. As is bickering

CACM April 1958 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/368796.368802
July https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/368873.368877
Sept https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/368919.368921

Turingineer? Comptologist?

Letters to the editor | Communications of the ACM

Communications of the ACM
Allen Wirfs-BrockMar 27, 2023

Nothing new about programmers wanting to design keyboards

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/368873.368879

The Lincoln Keyboard&a typewriter keyboard designed for computers imput flexibility | Communications of the ACM

Communications of the ACM
Allen Wirfs-BrockMar 27, 2023

Transpilers (but not the word) are a very old concept:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/368873.368884

Simple automatic coding systems | Communications of the ACM

Communications of the ACM
Show threadAllen Wirfs-BrockMar 17, 2023
Group accumulating energy for transport
Allen Wirfs-BrockMar 17, 2023
I'm becoming increasingly convinced that after sufficient exposure to direct sunlight boxelder bugs are able to quantum teleport themselves through sheets of glass.
Allen Wirfs-BrockFeb 23, 2023

What most people believe: object-oriented programming is inherently about state manipulation.

What Alan Kay thought (see below).

From Kay's 1993 "Early History of Smalltalk" HOPL paper.
http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk

The Early History Of Smalltalk