But I hope Clippy did a Eulogy.
I never even knew there was a person associated with it. Think of how much time and work my fingers were saved. Now he’s gone to that great clipboard in the sky.
Xerox invented everything.
Thank you buddy, I use that feature every single day!
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RIP, RIP,RIP,RIP,RIP,
Which modes in which he speaks? Never heard of this.
I thought he was a Word Perfect dude.
Xerox?
Something wrong here. I had a wordstar printer in 1980. It had copy and paste commands. This fellow has a book in 2012 and gets credit?
There will never be another like him.
No one has ever figured out why they did that.
Xerox had solved every piece of the personal computer puzzle by that time.
Jobs saw everything, but the only thing he remembered was being completely mesmerized by the Xerox computer mouse.
In any event, a couple years later Jobs brought out the first Apple computer and Xerox disappeared as a competitor.
Control + Alt + Delete
Many brilliant mathematicians & researchers worked there, creating much of modern computer science. Professor John McCarthy [formerly with MIT] created the lab, staffed it, worked there, and taught graduate-level classes. John was a very influential AI pioneer. He famously invented / discovered LISP (List Processing Language) in 1955. Because of its almost total lack of syntax, it's naturally recursive. LISP source code structure is identical to LISP data. Everything is just a list – a string of delimited symbols bounded by parentheses. Lists can contain other lists, deeply nested. Since LISP code can modify itself by manipulating lists, it has an innate recursiveness – like the fundamental level of neuroplasticity. LISP became the programming language of choice for Artificial Intelligence research & development.
I was very lucky & privileged to take all of his classes. I learned LISP from John himself, along with other grad students [like Tesler] who also worked on projects at SAIL. The Lab had its own programming language, SAIL – Stanford Artificial Intelligence Language. It had an ALGOL-like syntax, and many features that later became ubiquitous, like Pieces of Glass (POGs) – the precursor to Windows. Invoking a Piece of Glass was equivalent to opening a new window, except that POGs were transparent not opaque.
Much of the TCP/IP Internet protocols were developed at SAIL [under DARPA research funding]. Chunking data into relatively small "packets" that could be transmitted asynchronously in any order, then stitched back together in correct sequence, was a fundamental building block of Internet communication.
Other luminaries at the Lab included Alan Kay, who created the [object-oriented] smalltalk programming language. He also essentially created the design for a portable, folding, personal computer; half keyboard, half screen. Alan became an Apple Fellow.
Whitfield Diffie worked on cryptography. He developed – along with Martin Hellman – the Diffie-Hellman key-exchange algorithm, using Elliptic Curve math to enable public-key cryptography [1976].
Ron Rivest is another Stanford Computer Science PhD & SAIL cryptographer alumnus, who is the R in RSA Security.
Similarly with Rodney Brooks, who worked on Robotics. He invented & produced the Roomba vacuum cleaner.
There was a continuing interchange of ideas among programmers at SAIL, Xerox PARC [Palo Alto Research Center], & SRI [Stanford Research Institute]. Doug Englebart invented [1968] the mouse as a pointing & control device.
Perhaps the intellectual giant with the strongest claim to creating the pillars of modern computer science is Professor Don Knuth, author of the multi-volume Art of Computer Science. He is now Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Science. Stanford honored him with the distinguished Stanford Hero award [2011] for lifetime achievement.
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Hey, copy and paste still works. Thanks Larry.
Crtl-X and Ctrl-V
Wore those buttons out on more than one keyboard.
Seems like a minor function, but it is everything.
Millions of college students morn his passing. They never would have gotten through their term papers without the feature he invented.
Blind as a bat, two-fingered typists everywhere wish you Godspeed, Mr. Tesler! Thank you very much!
copy *.* c:\
I sort of remember the 9 commands we had in DOS 2 or 3; can’t remember. Been a while... since ‘89 or ‘89 on an IBM PS2/50 box.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DOS_commands
I thought it originated in EMACS, using the concept of the point and the range, i.e. placing a point before one byte in RAM, setting another point further in RAM and the region between providing a range. THe copy function was a CntlC command to copy that range into a buffer. THe CntlP command would then paste the range into a location specified by a new point in an open text file.
EMACS also had some time saving cut and past fcns, by word, line, paragraph, using the keypad, made editing so much easier.
His developments have saved me huge amounts of time and effort over the years, and have always been among my favorite computer features. Well done, sir, and RIP.