Adele Goldberg
American computer scientist · United States · On the map · Developers · Born 1945 · age 81
Adele J. Goldberg is an American computer scientist. She was a co-developer of the programming language Smalltalk-80, an early object-oriented programming language that influenced the design of languages such as Python, Objective-C, and Java, and developed many concepts related to object-oriented programming, while a...
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She was a co-developer of the programming language Smalltalk-80, an early object-oriented programming language that influenced the design of languages such as Python, Objective-C, and Java, and developed many concepts related to object-oriented programming, while a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in the 1970s.