HP Fires Father of OOP

An anonymous reader writes "Wow. Hewlett-Packard has disbanded its Advanced Software Research team and sent its leader, reknowned programmer Alan Kay, packing. From today's Good Morning Silicon Valley: 'HP is bidding adieu to legendary Silicon Valley technologist Alan Kay. A founder of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, Kay -- who once said, "The best way to predict the future is to invent it" -- was instrumental in the development of the windowing GUI and modern object-oriented programming. He envisioned a laptop computer long before the first ones rolled out and his Smalltalk programming language was a predecessor to Sun Microsystems' Java. Hard to believe HP's cutting him loose.' Maybe Apple will hire him."

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Another thing he said

[pointym5]

At an MIT Media Lab thing back in 1992, I heard Kay say "Stuff that's gonna happen should be part of any prediction of the future." I quote that all the time.

Re:And...

[computerdude33]

It's the semi-high end of the low end. Which makes it the low end of the middle end.

In conclusion, HP is high end for consumer level.

Thank you for your time, gentlemen.