The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
– Alan Kay
Alan Kay is a pioneering computer scientist known primarily for his work on object-oriented programming and graphical user interfaces. While at Xerox PARC, he led the team that developed Smalltalk, the first purely object-oriented, dynamically typed and reflective programming language. Moreover, the Smalltalk windowing system was a precursor to today’s ubiquitous graphical user interface.
Kay is also an accomplished jazz guitarist and classical organist.
In this insightful and entertaining lecture on Programming and Scaling, Kay reflects on past and future paradigms for the development of large-scale software systems.
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