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Died programmer who simplified the life of most people on the planet

Larry Tesler, one of the first programmers who played a key role in making computers available to everyone, not just specialists, has died at the age of 74, reports Air force.

Photo: YouTube video screen / Computer History Museum

Tesler, in particular, developed and implemented the “cut-copy-paste” function (Сtrl+x/Сtrl+c/Сtrl+v), as well as many others, thanks to which the personal computer became easy to learn and use.

Lawrence (Larry) Tesler was born in the New York Bronx in 1945, the year the Second World War ended, and then studied at Stanford University in California.

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After graduation, he began to develop a user interface, that is, he specialized in making a personal computer more understandable for a simple consumer by means of a set of specific commands, graphics, etc.

He began working in Silicon Valley in the early 1960s, a time when computers were only available to specialists.

During his long career, Larry managed to work in various large technology companies, starting with the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Parc), until Steve Jobs lured him to Apple, where Tesler spent 17 years.

Xerox posted a photo of the scientist on his Twitter account, recalling his achievements.

Photo: Twitter screen

“Inventor of such commands as Сtrl+x/Сtrl+c/Сtrl+v; Ctrl+h (cut/copy/paste; find and replace) and many others - former Xerox employee Larry Tesler. Your workday is made easier thanks to his revolutionary ideas.”

After leaving Apple, Tesler launched his own educational startup and for some time collaborated with Amazon and Yahoo.

In a 2012 interview with the BBC, he said of Silicon Valley: “It has become almost a ritual: after you make some money, you don’t just retire, you start your own companies.”

“There’s a special magnetism in being able to share what you’ve learned with the next generation,” he said.

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Computer rebel

It is entirely possible that Tesler's most widely known innovation (the function Ctrl + c / Ctrl + v) took as a basis the old way of editing, when people manually cut out pieces of text and then pasted them somewhere else.

This team was embedded in Apple's software on one of the early Lisa computers back in 1983, and then on the first Macintosh, which was released the following year.

The Silicon Valley Computer History Museum paid tribute to the scientist by tweeting: “Today we say goodbye to Larry Tesler. Tesler came up with the idea of ​​cut-copy-paste, combining the scientific approach of a computer scientist with a rebellious vision, believing that computers should be accessible to everyone.”

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