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Here's a nice document with many programming interfaces by Johnathan M. Edwards 1948 Plugboards 1949 Keypunch 1963 Teletype 1970 VT05 1980

Here's a nice document with many programming interfaces by Johnathan M. Edwards 1948 Plugboards 1949 Keypunch 1963 Teletype 1970 VT05 1980 Symbolic Lisp 1980 Smalltalk 1986 Boxer 1987 Self 1987 HyperCard 1987 Alice Pascal 1991 Visual Basic 1991 AgentSheets 1994 SK8 1996 Squeak/eToys 2001 Eclipse 2003 Flash MX 2005 Scratch … https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vSPuf3eQ2tlCtXAif4gEWQQU-xK8EzhiH3SIfuD7vWy7eP4NN0-KRejbec_m-GF6-f_D95OOFyyoolx/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000&slide=id.g1da0625f1b_0_56 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vSPuf3eQ2tlC...

sitkack 4y ago
The original refactoring browser/editor was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualAge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualAge it was later Open Sourced as Eclipse but it predates it by over a decade.
- pasc1878 4y ago
  I don't think Eclipse is Open Source Visual Age for Java. Both came from IBM but... When the IBM rep cam to our company explaining the change he explained what changed and 3 of the points were why I used VAJ and Eclipse did not have them (at the time 10 years later it nearly had them). VAJ worked with an included JRE that allowed you to edit code as it ran. VAJ included a GUI builder VAJ was organised around code structure and not files e.g. you chose packages and classes and methods and not by files. VAJ was based on the VA Smalltalk environment.
  - mkl 4y ago
    From that Wikipedia link: > VisualAge for Java is based on an extended Smalltalk virtual machine which executes both Smalltalk and Java byte codes. Java natives were actually implemented in Smalltalk.[6] > VisualAge Micro Edition, which supports development of embedded Java applications and cross system development, is a reimplementation of the IDE in Java. This version of VisualAge morphed into the Eclipse Framework.
  - sitkack 4y ago
    My understanding is the Eclipse codebase is descended from VAJ, not that they were the same product. VAJ had the distinctive VA UI.
scroot 4y ago
I would love to see a demo of SK8. I've never been able to get it to work in any of the classic mac emulators. If anyone out there has experience with this I think the community would benefit from some videos
capableweb 4y ago
While interesting (thanks a lot for sharing this great resource), it seems to mainly focus on just the UX/UI aspects, while ignoring the input method, they all depend on mouse and/or keyboard. Is there any similar resources for more varied input methods? Like joysticks, custom keyboards, voice or similar?
- efortis 4y ago
  From the top of my head, I've seen: piano-like single hand keyboards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard light-pen, pen-to-text foot pedals keyboards with two wheels text-to-speech (os native) gloves and 2D mocap-like cam capture of sign language Neuralink.com

sitkack 4y ago

The original refactoring browser/editor was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualAge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualAge it was later Open Sourced as Eclipse but it predates it by over a decade.

pasc1878 4y ago
I don't think Eclipse is Open Source Visual Age for Java. Both came from IBM but... When the IBM rep cam to our company explaining the change he explained what changed and 3 of the points were why I used VAJ and Eclipse did not have them (at the time 10 years later it nearly had them). VAJ worked with an included JRE that allowed you to edit code as it ran. VAJ included a GUI builder VAJ was organised around code structure and not files e.g. you chose packages and classes and methods and not by files. VAJ was based on the VA Smalltalk environment.
- mkl 4y ago
  From that Wikipedia link: > VisualAge for Java is based on an extended Smalltalk virtual machine which executes both Smalltalk and Java byte codes. Java natives were actually implemented in Smalltalk.[6] > VisualAge Micro Edition, which supports development of embedded Java applications and cross system development, is a reimplementation of the IDE in Java. This version of VisualAge morphed into the Eclipse Framework.
- sitkack 4y ago
  My understanding is the Eclipse codebase is descended from VAJ, not that they were the same product. VAJ had the distinctive VA UI.

scroot 4y ago

I would love to see a demo of SK8. I've never been able to get it to work in any of the classic mac emulators. If anyone out there has experience with this I think the community would benefit from some videos

capableweb 4y ago

While interesting (thanks a lot for sharing this great resource), it seems to mainly focus on just the UX/UI aspects, while ignoring the input method, they all depend on mouse and/or keyboard. Is there any similar resources for more varied input methods? Like joysticks, custom keyboards, voice or similar?

efortis 4y ago
From the top of my head, I've seen: piano-like single hand keyboards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard light-pen, pen-to-text foot pedals keyboards with two wheels text-to-speech (os native) gloves and 2D mocap-like cam capture of sign language Neuralink.com