Smalltalk and as a particular case Pharo is an example of this for me. (https://pharo.org/ https://pharo.org/). When I was in uni a paper that I always came bac

Smalltalk and as a particular case Pharo is an example of this for me. (https://pharo.org/ https://pharo.org/). When I was in uni a paper that I always came back to was Licklider's 1960s paper on human-computer symbiosis. "[...] to enable men and computers to cooperate in making decisions and controlling complex situations without inflexible dependence on predetermined programs." Experimenting with Smalltalk (and also with Clojure and Emacs) was one of the things to me that genuinely felt like that vision of programs as living, interactive, organic things rather than the formulaic, static and low level programming that I was used to learning. I think it's still such a shame that in daily jobs it's so difficult to convince people of trying these technologies out because it requires such a big shift in how people think about software. https://worrydream.com/refs/Licklider_1960_-_Man-Computer_Symbiosis.pdf https://worrydream.com/refs/Licklider_1960_-_Man-Computer_Sy...