There was a handfull of Comp Sci students there that I hung out with for a bit, and they told me about a lunch that they were all at earlier in the day with Alan Kay.
Apparently, one of the students said to Kay, "I don't see why you need anything more than C to write an operating system with."
This is like saying to Einstein, "I don't see why we need anything better than Newtonian physics to describe the universe."
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There was a handfull of Comp Sci students there that I hung out with for a bit, and they told me about a lunch that they were all at earlier in the day with Alan Kay.
Apparently, one of the students said to Kay, "I don't see why you need anything more than C to write an operating system with."
This is like saying to Einstein, "I don't see why we need anything better than Newtonian physics to describe the universe."
A good 15 minutes of humiliation followed.