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Mittwoch, 14. August 2002

Gobe Productive to go open source?

"It's everything that OpenOffice isn't [...]"

2002-08-14-gobeGPL

In den refs zeigen sich milde Spuren eines kleineren Slashbebens.

2002-08-14-sdfx

What's Thinlet? — "Thinlet is a GUI toolkit, a Java class which parses the hierarchy and properties of the GUI, handles user interaction, and calls business logic. Separates the graphic design (described in an XML file) and the application methods (written as Java source)."

2002-08-14-thinlets

The inventors of object-oriented programming ([create OOP] — Simula) and Turing Award winners Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard have both died within a month and a half.

Ole-Johan Dahl, † [create 2002-06-29]
Kristen Nygaard, † [create 2002-08-09], in memoriam

Alan Kay: "After the HOPL conference, Kristen stopped by and I gave him the same [Smalltalk] demo. What a difference! He not only understood everything I said, but often told me what I was going to show him next. He had been thinking about further steps and he was completely thrilled to see many of these ideas already in Smalltalk. We were great friends from that day onwards. I have given many thousands of demos in the last 40 years, but that was the one that meant the most to me."

Why Kristen Nygaard spearheaded the Norwegian "No-to-EU" (www.neitileu.no) movement.

2002-08-14-dahlNygaardRIP

"[John Carmack] himself feels that his real innovations peaked with [create Quake] in 1996. Everything since, he says, is essentially refining a theme."

2002-08-14-carmack

"So again the question is 'What exactly is hindering a wider acceptance of SAP DB in Free/Open Software projects?'"

Semi-official answer by Daniel Dittmar.

2002-08-14-sapdb

David Ness 8120 days AGO
The passing of Dahl and Nygaard somehow reminds me of the wonderfully odd story of the Finnish Twins from Raahe. Was this your story or did I get it from somewhere else? Anyway its reported at NYTimes Improbable Events Story.

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