The Big Oops: Anatomy of a Thirty-Five Year Mistake
10 months ago
- #Programming History
- #OOP
- #Software Development
- Presentation on the history of OOP at the Better Software Conference, kept under two hours.
- Research involved reviewing over a thousand pages of source material, with many stories left out.
- Proposal for a livestream to discuss additional historical documents not covered in the talk.
- Four key historical papers recommended for further reading: Early History of Smalltalk, History of C++, Development of the Simula Languages, and Origins of the APT Language.
- Interest expressed by the audience in a livestream to explore the topic in more depth.