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Thursday, April 22, 2004
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Scientists find computer speed limit: "If there is an article of faith in computer science, it's that everything can keep getting faster and faster. But scientists say they've discovered an apparent speed limit that will restrict how quickly data can be written onto disks and then retrieved."
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Smalltalk developer is honored -- Comment()
Smalltalk Creator Wins 'Nobel Prize' of Computing: "The ACM will honor Dr. Alan Kay with a 2003 Turing Award for his development of Smalltalk, the first complete dynamic object-oriented programming language and the template for Java and C++." I remember fondly Smalltalk, which I had to learn in a course on object-oriented programming. The programming project was done in pairs, and our task was to program an interface for chess, including features for checking that the moves made by the players were legal. Later I had Smalltalk on my Mac, and played with it a bit, but never used it for any larger projects.
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