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Dan Ingalls Alive

Dan Ingalls
KindPerson
Born1944
StatusAlive
Fieldprogramming languages
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

Implemented Smalltalk's VMs and BitBlt — the bitmap operation that made the PARC GUI fast enough to exist.

Worked at Xerox PARC
Created Smalltalk

Implemented Smalltalk's first versions, invented bitblt (the raster-graphics primitive every GUI uses), and built much of Squeak and Lively Kernel.\n\nThe engineer who made Kay's ideas pixels; still active in Smalltalk implementations.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Ingalls