Computer Pioneer Alan Kay Joins Hewlett-Packard - whether he can bring his strengths to bear there? HP is - especially after the latest merger - really no longer the think tank with good ideas and sometimes quite a bit of freedom for research. It would be a shame if Alan Kay got stuck there. And to stay on topic: the environment linked in the article Squeak is really worth seeing. Take a look at it sometime, one of the most modern Smalltalk systems on the market. An ideal playground, especially since many interesting base projects are already included, such as a quite usable web browser and web server.
Found at heise online news.