18 Facts About Carl Sassenrath

Carl Sassenrath was born in 1957 to Charles and Carolyn Sassenrath in California.

Carl Sassenrath's father was a chemical engineer involved in research and development related to petroleum refining, paper production, and air pollution control systems.

From his early childhood Carl Sassenrath was actively involved in electronics, amateur radio, photography, and filmmaking.

When he was 13, Carl Sassenrath began working for KEET, a PBS public broadcasting television station.

Carl Sassenrath was a teaching assistant for graduate computer language courses and a research assistant in neuroscience and behavioral biology.

Carl Sassenrath proposed them to HP, but found the large company complacent to the "smaller OS" ideas.

Later in 1982, impressed by the new computing ideas being published from Xerox PARC, Carl Sassenrath formed an HP project to develop the modern style of window-based mouse-driven GUIs.

At HP, Carl Sassenrath was involved with and influenced by a range of HP language projects including Ada, Pascal, Smalltalk, Lisp, Forth, SPL, and a variety of experimental languages.

Carl Sassenrath later noted that the design came as a necessity of trying to integrate into ROM dozens of internal libraries and devices including graphics, sound, graphical user interface, floppy disk, file systems, and others.

In 1986, Carl Sassenrath was recruited to Apple Computer's Advanced Technology Group to invent the next generation of operating systems.

Carl Sassenrath was part of the Aquarius project, a quad-core CPU project that was intended to become a 3D-based successor to the Macintosh.

In 1988, Carl Sassenrath left Silicon Valley for the mountains of Ukiah valley, 2 hours north of San Francisco.

Carl Sassenrath implemented the Logo programming language for the Amiga, managed the software OS development for CDTV, one of the first CD-ROM TV set-top boxes, and wrote the OS for Viscorp Ed, one of the first Internet TV set-top boxes.

In 1996, after watching the growth and development of programming languages like Java, Perl, and Python, Carl Sassenrath decided to publish his own ideas within the world of computer languages.

Carl Sassenrath describes REBOL as a balance between the concepts of context and symbolism, allowing users to create new relationships between symbols and their meanings.

Carl Sassenrath considers REBOL experimental because it provides greater control over context than most other programming languages.

In 1998, Carl Sassenrath founded REBOL Technologies, a company he still runs.

Since 2010, Carl Sassenrath had worked at Roku, Inc in product development.