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The post reminds me of BYTE article from 1981, in the Smalltalk special issue. It was the first time I had ever seen recursion illustrated graphically, on a bit

The post reminds me of BYTE article from 1981, in the Smalltalk special issue. It was the first time I had ever seen recursion illustrated graphically, on a bitmap of Mickey Mouse's face [1]. Lots of good articles in that issue, and the whole thing is available on-line at the Internet Archive [2]. [1] Daniel H. H. Ingalls. The Smalltalk Graphics Kernel. BYTE 6(8), August, 1981, pp. 168--94. [2] http://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1981-08/1981_08_BYTE_06-08_Smalltalk#page/n181/mode/2up http://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1981-08/1981_08_BYTE...

javajosh 13y ago
Wonderful link! Off-topic, but I was particularly enthralled with the ads. Many of them are great, but my favorite was for "The Last One"[1]. "Say goodbye to the frustrations of computer programming. The Last One will be available very soon...The Last One is a computer program that writes computer programs. Programs that work the first time. Every time." And for only $600. I was surprised to see that this software actually shipped, according to Wikipedia. [2] Alas, it was not the last piece of software that people ever needed to use, apparently. [1] http://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1981-08/1981_08_BYTE_06-08_Smalltalk#page/n209/mode/2up http://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1981-08/1981_08_BYTE... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_(software)