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In the beginning was the command line. Then work of bright people of Xerox PARC was used to hide from users the reality that underneath their beloved GUI, compu
by yetihehe 5y ago
In the beginning was the command line. Then work of bright people of Xerox PARC was used to hide from users the reality that underneath their beloved GUI, computers are just passing around strings of text. Now we yearn for a time when you were just one INT and several MOV away from putting a pixel on a screen, instead of downloading multi-GB IDE to fiddle for a weekend before you can show a simple window.
- davisr 5y agoYou don't understand what happened at Xerox PARC or what their "GUI" was. Smalltalk wasn't a language, it wasn't a GUI, it was an _environment_, and its whole point was that it didn't hide anything! It was a completely different paradigm to how computers and their programs are architected today. A Smalltalk system was always meant to be so simple that one could understand, and change, everything about it.
- yetihehe 5y agoThat's why I've said that their work was used, not that they did it.