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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
Alan Kay
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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
Computer Scientist
Jazz Guitarist
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Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
Alan C. Kay
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