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Dan Ingalls on the History of Smalltalk and the Lively Kernel
- bitwize 16y agoAnd now Sun is owned by Oracle, which means they probably haven't an interest in exciting things like Self or Lively, unless they can get a new way to optimize left outer joins that they can sell in an upgrade or something out of it.
- mhd 16y agoAs opposed to Sun, who really welcomed anything that would add another few megabytes to a system, thus justifying more sales of E10ks? (Still peeved that Sun didn't open-source either NeWs or OLIT)
- johkra 16y agoI'm trying to get a hold of the META II paper from 1962 he mentions, it sounds very interesting. Is there anyone who read the paper and could give me his/her opinion? (Fortunately, the university library has an ACM subscription.)