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From: carlg@world.std.com (Carl E Gundel)
Subject: Re: origin of the name Smalltalk
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CRovira (crovira@aol.com) wrote:
: Smalltalk was originally developped by the Learning Research Group of
: Xerox's PARC. It was thought up as a method of empowering children to
: control computers. The first few versions of Smalltalk looked very
: Logo-like.

: The original project was the brainchild of Alan Kay, a pedagogue who was
: basing his work on earlier work by Ernest Piaget.
: Charles-A. Rovira
: Walk Tall and Talk Small...

Charles,

  Do you still love Smalltalk like little puppies?  ;-)

Carl
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