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Oral History of Steve Naroff Part 1, Session 1

3K views · Apr 19, 2019 · 2:30:46 · 0 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2020–2024

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.

Why Hacker News points people here: Pointed to as a primary-source account of Objective-C's origins and the early days of NeXT and Apple.

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Cites itcxrJun 2020

“Steve Naroff (from Stepstone/NeXT/Apple) did a recent-ish set of interviews with the Computer History Museum[2][3]”

Oral history interviews with Naroff, who discusses objects and Objective-C

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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

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Cites itnequoAug 2024

“The Computer History Museum has a two part interview with Steve Naroff, one of the engineers who worked on Objective C”

Two-part CHM interview with an Objective-C engineer

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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

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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

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