Oral History of Steve Naroff Part 1, Session 1
Computer History MuseumCited 3× on HN, 2020-2024
3K views · 7 years ago · interview · evergreen
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.
Pointed to as a primary-source account of Objective-C's origins and the early days of NeXT and Apple.
35:07NeXTSTEP Release 3: A Demonstration with Steve Jobs
Joseph Spiros
184K views • 6 years ago
1:44:36Oral History of Dave Cutler Part 1
Computer History Museum
33K views • 8 years ago
3:07:26Oral History of Donald Knuth Part 1
Computer History Museum
15K views • 7 years ago
1:27:31Oral History of John Backus
Computer History Museum
18K views • 13 years ago
1:12:20Steve Jobs The Lost Interview
Steve Jobs
281K views • 9 years ago
2:55:13Oral History of Gary Davidian, part 2 of 2
Computer History Museum
2K views • 7 years ago
2:31:38Avie Tevanian: CMU math whiz goes from Mach to NeXT to Apple Software Chief | Oral History Part 1
Computer History Museum
49K views • 9 years ago
2:00:10Oral History of Bjarne Stroustrup
Computer History Museum
75K views • 11 years ago
1:20:30Steve Jobs Introduces the Macintosh
Computer History Museum
1.6M views • 10 years ago
1:03:02CHM Live | Original iPhone Software Team Leader Scott Forstall (Part Two)
Computer History Museum
101K views • 9 years ago
0:57Steve Jobs talks about what he saw and he missed at Xerox PARC
Yoshiki Ohshima (大島芳樹)
21K views • 8 years ago
5:11The Lost 1984 Video: young Steve Jobs introduces the Macintosh
macessentials
12.6M views • 17 years ago
9:35Macworld San Francisco 2000-The Mac OS X Introduction (Pt.1)
JoshuaG
787K views • 20 years ago
3:55:45Oral History of Chuck Peddle
Computer History Museum
42K views • 7 years ago
3:44Apple II Forever
Alfred DiBlasi
213K views • 19 years ago
23:00Steve Jobs rare footage conducting a presentation on 1980 (Insanely Great)
naji1234
2.8M views • 14 years ago
2:35:323dfx Oral History Panel with Ross Smith, Scott Sellers, Gary Tarolli, and Gordon Campbell
Computer History Museum
51K views • 12 years ago
3:10:28The Mind Behind Windows: Dave Cutler
Dave's Garage
1M views • 3 years ago
1:13:51Douglas Engelbart Interviewed by John Markoff of the New York Times
Computer History Museum
14K views • 13 years ago
16:48Yesterday's Computer of Tomorrow: The Xerox Alto │Smalltalk-76 Demo
Computer History Museum
38K views • 8 years ago
3 comments from Hacker News
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
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
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