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Computer History Museum - Lectures - Dan Ingalls (472 words) |
 | Ingalls tells the story of how the forward-looking Smalltalk concepts and capabilities have evolved into a modern environment called Squeak that could still be... |
| Dan's major contributions to the Squeak system include the original concept of a Smalltalk written in itself and made portable and efficient by a simple Smalltalk-to-C translator. |
| Dan lives with his wife Beth and their boys in Truckee, California, where he enjoys hiking and biking in the summer and snowboarding in the winter. |
| Interview Dan Ingalls Philosophy Squeak Smalltalk (1018 words) |
| Dan: There is inevitably a dichotomy to our work: work on the vehicle (Squeak and higher subsystems), and work on the content (educational material, curriculum). |
| Dan: I think you will see, if anything, an increase in our level of outside collaboration, especially in the academic sphere (the two examples you gave are academic organizations). |
| Dan: I think in the next year or so we will see the impact of bringing all these capabilities together in a single system that can be completely maintained and specialized by one or two sharp people. |
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