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Re:Steve Jobs hired a career juggler to teach programming to... by webwielder2 on Thursday December 27, 2018 @06:07PM (#18773473)
Why must they have? Part of what distinguished the Mac GUI from PARC’s is the former’s refinement, elegance, and whimsy, contributed in large part by Kare.
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Re:Steve Jobs hired a career juggler to teach programming to... by icebraining on Thursday December 27, 2018 @07:20PM (#18773868)
Yet they did, in the person of David Em: https://ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/graphicshistory/chapter/9-6...
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Re:Steve Jobs hired a career juggler to teach programming to... by cmacaskill on Thursday December 27, 2018 @07:56PM (#18774024)
Good find. I wonder if Andy Hertzfeld said one of the first and I misquoted him.
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Re:Steve Jobs hired a career juggler to teach programming to... by brandonmenc on Thursday December 27, 2018 @08:49PM (#18774295)
> Why must they have?

Because PARC was an intentionally multi-disciplinary group working on the earliest incarnations of visual computing.

Also, no one is disputing that Susan Kare is highly accomplished and hugely influential.

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Re:Steve Jobs hired a career juggler to teach programming to... by perl4ever on Thursday December 27, 2018 @07:51PM (#18773994)
Because any time you say some is "the first", you obviously looked at some sources to find who was the earliest one fitting some criteria. Relaxing the criteria and/or looking deeper is very likely to find someone else. But you can never win an argument either way, because the criteria are arbitrary. So many disputes boil down to definitions.
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