Rand

[Al Kossow]

[Computing] I have been told that _Introduction to Objectivist
Epistemology_ was required reading at the Xerox PARC lab where OOP
was invented, but this may be merely an urban legend. --
wilcoxb at cs.colorado.edu (Bryce Wilcox)


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In view of the temporal sequence, it seemed plausible to 
ask whether Rand¹s work had any actual influence on Kay and 
his colleagues at Xerox PARC. In October 2001, I sent
electronic mail messages to Kay, and to all the members of his 
original Smalltalk team whose e-mail addresses were available 
on the Internet, asking this question. The replies I received 
were unanimous: Ayn Rand¹s epistemology was not discussed 
by or known to any of them. Kay kindly sent me an extended 
reply, reproduced in Appendix A

http://www.objectivistcenter.org/events/advsem03/ReedOOP.pdf