User: diegof79

Re:What is a zillionaire?

On: Paul Allen the 'Accidental Zillionaire'

>Since early 1980's? Probably they knew that. But in early 1970's, Allen and
>Gates were just a couple of nerdy students, sharing a belief that the
>future is in household computers.While in that age everyone else shared a
>belief that a "computer" is meant to be maintained and operated only by
>specially trained staff wearing laboratory overalls.

This sounds like an history rewrite from Orwell's 1984.
Probably in early 1970's, Allen and Gates only want to do money.
Note that in 60's a group of people started to develop personal computers, see http://www.smalltalk.org/smalltalk/TheEarlyHistory OfSmalltalk_Abstract.html.
(in fact they develop things that even today are advanced, ie. compare the early St with Java/C#)

So don't believe this lie. Gates and Allen weren't "visionaries" of personal computers.

Smalltalk is not the predecessor of Java

On: HP Fires Father of OOP

...his Smalltalk programming language was a predecessor to Sun Microsystems' Java

This information is incorrect, Smallatlk is not the predecessor of Java. In fact Java lacts most of the features of Smalltalk. History of programming languages: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/language poster_0504.html Smalltalk compared to Java: http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/VisualWorks/Donald+Raab's+ Smalltalk+vs+Java+Comparisons http://www.whysmalltalk.com/articles/pages/javavss malltalkblocks.htm http://www.smalltalkchronicles.net/edition3-1/whyj ava.html