HP Fires Father of OOP 697
An anonymous reader writes "Wow. Hewlett-Packard has disbanded its Advanced Software Research team and sent its leader, reknowned programmer Alan Kay, packing. From today's Good Morning Silicon Valley: 'HP is bidding adieu to legendary Silicon Valley technologist Alan Kay. A founder of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, Kay -- who once said, "The best way to predict the future is to invent it" -- was instrumental in the development of the windowing GUI and modern object-oriented programming. He envisioned a laptop computer long before the first ones rolled out and his Smalltalk programming language was a predecessor to Sun Microsystems' Java. Hard to believe HP's cutting him loose.' Maybe Apple will hire him."
Especially appropriate (Score:4, Funny)
Is Carly Fiorini hiring? (Score:3, Funny)
I hear she's a wiz at turning companies around!
Oh wait....
Bad Idea (Score:4, Funny)
Favorite Alan Kay Quotation (Score:5, Funny)
- Alan Kay
I don't know if this is a true quotation, or is apocryphal, but it's good enough to throw around at random.
I'm sure Mr. Kay will not have any problem finding a job, should he so desire one. Regardless, I wish him the best of luck.
Re:Google (Score:2, Funny)
What will happen to Teatime and Croquet? (Score:5, Funny)
I just hope development on Croquet doesn't stall now, otherwise us cyberspace-lusting techno-hopefuls will just have to wait for the inevitable (but still hopefully far-off) day where you can open Word documents and Excel spreadsheets from inside World of Warcraft.
Re:Something's Fishy (Score:2, Funny)
Am I still picking you up at bldg 4 in front of HP's cafeteria at 7:30pm tonight?
Re:Favorite Alan Kay Quotation (Score:5, Funny)
At which point, the collective hand of all programmers across the world, embodied in Alan Kay's hand, reaches across the table and slaps the shit out of the interviewer.
Not that I'm bitter.
Re:HP Slogans (Score:5, Funny)
Actually actually, I think it meant to say "HP Invert", as in Rectal-Cranial Inversion, which is what HP has collectively accomplished with moves like this.
Acronym Collision (Score:3, Funny)
Harry Potter fires the father of the Order Of the Phoenix? Wha?
...
OH.
Yet More HP Slogans (Score:5, Funny)
Actually actually, I think it meant to say "HP Invert", as in Rectal-Cranial Inversion, which is what HP has collectively accomplished with moves like this.
Fact: they meant to say "HP Invect" -- that is, to issue invective.
Examples:
"Fuck you, losers -- we're better off without you!"
And:
"HP Rules! U-S-A-!! U-S-A-!!," etc.
-kgj
'quote' (Score:1, Funny)
-- NOT Mr. Bill G.
You down with OOP? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Yet More HP Slogans (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, what they meant to say was "HP Invest." Just one letter. Simple mistake, really.
Actually actually, I think it meant to say "HP Invert", as in Rectal-Cranial Inversion, which is what HP has collectively accomplished with moves like this.
Fact: they meant to say "HP Invect" -- that is, to issue invective.
Actual fact: they meant to say "HP Invebt" -- the meaning of which is unknown.
Re:Smalltalk (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Google (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Favorite Alan Kay Quotation (Score:2, Funny)
It would mostly consist of:
"How big do you want your office?"
"Can I get you anything?"
"Hookers and beer? No problem!"
and
"When can you start?"
But that's just my guess.
Re:Google (Score:5, Funny)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhole_cover [wikipedia.org]
It really kills me that wikipedia practically has a manhole category.
I'm going to stop saying "manhole" now.
Re:Yet More HP Slogans (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hard to believe HP's cutting him loose? (Score:1, Funny)
For the same reason that we all got into CS. For the chicks.
I think I speak for all of us when I say... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Google (Score:2, Funny)
Hey! Don't fall into that gaping manhole!
He managed to pack 15 workers into that manhole!
Everybody stand in line for your turn in the manhole.
He managed to get a ladder wedged into his manhole.
Re:Google (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Yet More HP Slogans (Score:5, Funny)
HP needs a new slogan (Score:4, Funny)
the new slogan
"merge, layoff, and go out of business"
Re:And... (Score:4, Funny)
If I was HP I would be dead scared and trying to climb desperately to the middle end!
The middle end?