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Thanks for sharing your experience with working with Smalltalk. I wonder in a parallel universe, a smalltalk one, what VCS would have been like? Would the "las

Thanks for sharing your experience with working with Smalltalk. I wonder in a parallel universe, a smalltalk one, what VCS would have been like? Would the "last version that worked" also just have been an object?

nradov 3y ago
Check out the Monticello VCS for Smalltalk. https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1287 https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1287
igouy 3y ago
You've been given a mistaken impression of the Smalltalk-80 development process. Changes were automatically logged to an external text file and could be recovered. By the late '80s there was multi-user fine-grained version control: ENVY/Developer https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mastering_ENVY_Developer/ld6E19QIMo4C?hl=en&gbpv=1 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mastering_ENVY_Develope...