Smalltalk

Allen B. Davis – Smalltalk Industry Council:

"Smalltalk is by far the best programming language available. The Family of C programming languages has been evolving toward Smalltalk-like functionality for the past 25 years. Java is the most Smalltalk-like of the C family, removing the direct pointer manipulation of C++ and adding fully integrated garbage collection. Smalltalk provides a simpler syntax, consistency between class and instance behavior, much higher productivity and easier maintainability. This makes it the logical next choice for current Java developers and the logical choice for businesses interested in reducing their total cost of ownership for software systems. Smalltalk is well supported by many vendors including Cincom, IBM and Instantiations”

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Alan Kay Wins Kyoto Prize
Alan Kay, HP Senior Fellow and one of the pioneers of personal computing, today was named winner of the 2004 Kyoto Prize in advanced technology, his third major scientific award this year.
Alan Kay Wins Turing Award
One man's work to bring a biological model to the computer world has, 34 years later, led to a 2003 Turing Award by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), officials announced Monday.
Dr. Alan Kay will receive the "Nobel Prize of Computing" in a ceremony in June, as well as $100,000, for his pioneering work on Smalltalk, the first complete dynamic object-oriented programming (OOP) language. Today, the language is credited as the model for C++ and Java; Kay is considered the first to coin the phrase "object-oriented."