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Re:Alan Kay on the misunderstanding of OOP (1998) by ludamad on Friday June 24, 2016 @02:06PM (#11972031)
Can you summarize what those things might be? (That haven't reached mainstream use)
Re:Alan Kay on the misunderstanding of OOP (1998) by infinite8s on Friday June 24, 2016 @02:26PM (#11972193)
Here are 2 that he often brings up:

Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad demo - Object oriented graphics using a constraint based system (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6orsmFndx_o)

Douglas Englebart's demo - too many innovations to list, but includes real time collaboration (he demoed in a convention center while the system ran 30 miles away in his lab, connected by a leased line operating at 1200 baud!). People think he just invented the mouse, but the overarching theme in his work was augmenting human capabilities... http://dougengelbart.org/firsts/dougs-1968-demo.html

Re:Alan Kay on the misunderstanding of OOP (1998) by tamana on Saturday June 25, 2016 @05:13PM (#11978021)
Which of those things are not in mainstream use? We have Skype and Google Docs and AWS for collaboration and client/server computing.
Re:Alan Kay on the misunderstanding of OOP (1998) by ethbro on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @11:42AM (#12002387)
I hadn't seen the Sketchpad, thanks for the link.

One of the things that consistently impresses me about 1960s computing demos is the clarity of meaning and lack of jargon.