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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  • Proposal for a livestream to discuss additional historical documents not covered in the talk.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.