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What leads someone to co-create one of the world’s most influential programming languages? It’s a question raised by the life of Brad Cox, who died this month at the age of 76. “Brad grew up on the family’s dairy farm in South Carolina,” stated a memorial page at Legacy.com, “but found himself most interested in science.” So while today Cox is best remembered for creating the Objective-C programming language with his business partner Tom Love, it’s easy to wonder if his interest in object-oriented programming somehow came from a deep familiarity with the complexity of natural ...

Read later Summary: Diversity and equality remained high on the enterprise agenda in 2020 - in part for two hugely unfortunate reasons... (Pixabay) This year, the equality debate was focused on and triggered by two things - the death of George Floyd and the COVID-19 pandemic. While much of the focus on diversity within the tech sector remains on women in tech, 2020 has seen the debate broaden out to encompass the role technology should play in fighting racial injustice and promoting allyship. Here are my top 10 articles from a diginomica year in diversity and equality. W e took some of the w...

Introducing the Smalltalk Zoo Share In commemoration of the 40 th anniversary of the release of Smalltalk-80, the Computer History Museum is proud to announce a collaboration with Dan Ingalls to preserve and host the “Smalltalk Zoo.” Below, computer scientist Adele Goldberg explains the vision behind Smalltalk. What is Smalltalk, and what is the Smalltalk Zoo? The Smalltalk Zoo is a collection of historical versions of the revolutionary graphical programming and user environment Smalltalk, originally developed at Xerox PARC, ranging from the 1972 version all the way to the modern “Squea...