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The greatest single programming language ever designed

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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
Computer Scientist
Jazz Guitarist
Jazz Musician
Programmer
University Teacher
Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
Alan C. Kay
Programming
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Lisp

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Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.
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