Source: http://developers.slashdot.org/article. ... 22/0018240Slashdot wrote:"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."
HP Fires Father of OOP
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That..... would.... be..... AWESOME!!Slashdot wrote:"Maybe Apple will hire him."
Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
It's not about one man, but cutting heavily on research. I'm sure Mr Kay has no difficulties of finding a new and even better job.
.Reserch is research and in my opinion there should allow "unuseful" research in order to innovate something unique.
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Possibly Alan Kays team did not "drive useful innovation" or "bring it to market in efficient way"We are one of only a handful of systems companies left on the planet that invests in significant R&D," he said. "My goal is for HP to be the R&D leader in the areas strategic to HP and our customers. I want them to think of HP as a company that's driving useful innovation and bringing it to market in the most efficient way possible to help them solve problems or improve their lives."
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That's just the change. Jason is driving around these lorries filled with these huge cheques you see on pictures. So many zeros on there that they have to be oversized. What I am particularly proud of is that despite all the riches the mods and admins have amassed, we're still behaving as if all this hadn't happened. Amazing, come to think of it... 