[Edu-sig] Python & Smalltalk (was Re: OLPC related: pyGTK)

Laura Creighton lac at strakt.com
Thu Dec 21 16:49:22 CET 2006


Have you read 'Fumbling the Future'?
http://www.amazon.com/Fumbling-Future-Invented-Personal-Computer/dp/1583482660

I wouldn't call the work done at PARC as 'failed research projects'.
On the contrary, they were extremely successful research projects,
which was a large part of the problem.  A good many people at Xerox
did not want to become a successful computer company, and as soon
as it became clear that this was something that was not a pipe
dream, but something very realisable they worked very hard at
making sure that this did not happen.

Laura


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