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		mpweiher on Oct 17, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Haskell Typeclasses vs. C++ Classes Well, Smalltalk had been around for 16 years, Simula for over 20. The whole world of GUI programming was based on OO.

marcosdumay on Oct 17, 2017 [–]

The whole world of GUI programming consisted of a bunch of top of line labs and some research centers studying GUIs.

mpweiher on Oct 17, 2017 | [–]

Huh?

The Xerox Star was introduced in 1981 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star

Apple's Lisa was introduced in 1983. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa

With it, Lisa Toolkit and Clascal (Pascal with Classes) http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.bitsavers.org/pdf/app...

The Mac in 1984 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K

MacApp in 1985 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacApp

The Tektronix 4404 running Smalltalk, also 1984 http://www.wirfs-brock.com/allen/files/tek/4404-Flyer.pdf

The Amiga and Atari ST in 1985.

Windows was at 2.0 in 1987.

Heck, the NeXT cube had been introduced by fall of '88.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT_Computer

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