Oral History of Steve Naroff Part 1, Session 1
Why Hacker News recommends it
Pointed to as a primary-source account of Objective-C's origins and the early days of NeXT and Apple.
What it is
Computer History Museum oral history of Steve Naroff, an engineer at Stepstone, NeXT and Apple who worked on Objective-C. This first session covers his childhood, music background and early career.
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What Hacker News said
Cites cxr · 2020-06 · on “Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981)”
At the risk of putting readers off by the title, there's a video essay on YouTube called "Object-Oriented Programming is Bad"[1]. It's both thoughtful and thought-provoking, although I don't agree with the conclusion. Steve Naroff (from Stepstone/NeXT/Apple) did a recent-ish set of interviews with the Computer History Museum[2][3] and referenced that video a bit (and extemporized about objects in small parts throughout). Side note: Naroff and Brad Cox are set to present a paper on Objective-C at this year's HOPL[4]. I wish it were as readily available as Allen Wirfs-Brock's JS paper for the same conference[5][6]. 1. [LINK] 2. [this video] 3. [LINK] 4. [LINK] 5. [LINK] 6. [LINK]
Cites nequo · 2024-08 · on “1991 WWW-NeXT Implementation”
Yes. The Computer History Museum has a two part interview with Steve Naroff, one of the engineers who worked on Objective C: [this video] [LINK]
Cites Austin_Conlon · 2024-11 · on “Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and early object-oriented programming (2016)”
Related: - Oral History of Blaine Garst [PDF]: [LINK] - Oral History of Blaine Garst [Video]: [LINK] - Oral History of Steve Naroff [PDF]: [LINK] - Oral History of Steve Naroff [Video]: [this video]