Concept stub

Smalltalk

Human–Computer Interaction

The language and environment that defined OOP and the GUI.

Smalltalk — The language and environment that defined OOP and the GUI.

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Appears in

Xerox PARC, 1970. The invention that fit, and the ones that walked out.

Origins

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