There’s a combination I won’t soon forget. I spent yesterday evening at the Santa Cruz home of Dan Ingalls celebrating the 10th birthday of Squeak. Dan showed a video of a lecture he gave with his father on the development of an OCR system for recognizing Sanskrit text.
A number of very interesting people attended including some folks from Argentina who are marketing a Smalltalk based oil field production planning system. Also in attendance were David A. Smith – a leading architect of Croquet, Andreas Raab, Craig Latta who is doing some amazing work on a Smalltalk based system called Spoon, and a number of other thoroughly interesting people too numerous to mention here.
As a bonus, there was a fireworks display which we viewed from Dan’s terrace. It’s always interesting when a bunch of smalltalkers get together, they can be such an eclectic bunch.