In the beginning on May, Arialdo Martini posted this on Twitter:
The sad destiny of Kristen Nygaard and Ole-Johan Dahl. They invented OOP and most developers (including me) don't even remember their names
— Arialdo Martini (@arialdomartini) May 7, 2014
I answered him...
@karolikl I discovered their names only this morning. Very sad, isn't it?
— Arialdo Martini (@arialdomartini) May 7, 2014
An entire conversation followed...
@arialdomartini @karolikl and speaking of "unknown" norwegians lets not forget Trygve Reenskaug who introduced MVC
— Øyvind Malin (@oyvindmal) May 7, 2014
Pål Spilling, coauthored the Internet Protocol;
Håkon Wium Lie, invented CSS
#NorvegianComputerScientists /cc @karolikl @oyvindmal
— Arialdo Martini (@arialdomartini) May 7, 2014
And finally, a great idea!
@arialdomartini @karolikl feel like this is atleast one maybe several blogposts.
— Øyvind Malin (@oyvindmal) May 7, 2014
Arialdo and I are now in the process of starting a new project. A project where we dig into the work of Norwegian computer scientists, looking at how they were able to change the way we think about computing. And maybe we will get an idea of what the world would have looked like if these brilliant minds had decided to do something entirely different.
We will be creating a public git repository where we gather all our research, so you are welcome to contribute to this project if you'd like. It's time to honour the men who have made our jobs possible, and we're starting with Kristen Nygaard and Ole-Johan Dahl.
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