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Here's a long vid of Kay showing off the fruits of STEPS and doing his job to remind us that because we forgot about the work done in the 50s-70s, we've spent t
by corysama 11y ago
Here's a long vid of Kay showing off the fruits of STEPS and doing his job to remind us that because we forgot about the work done in the 50s-70s, we've spent the last 40 years rediscovering it and are only recently starting to catch back up.
https://vimeo.com/82301919 https://vimeo.com/82301919
It's important to note that he is giving his presentation using STEPS' custom productivity suite; running on STEPS' custom OS; both of which were compiled using STEPS' custom languages and custom compilers all the way down to the assemblers. And, the whole package (OS, compilers and all) totals well under 100K lines of code with no external, non-STEPs code introduced.
- davidgrenier 11y agoI had seen that video before... I found it upsetting as most of it was bragging and ranting, am I the only one who noticed? There was no material in that video that anyone could use and following the above article (http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/contrib/EarlyHistoryST.html http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/contrib/EarlyHistoryST.html) also was written by Kay himself (which I haven't read yet but will do)... I'm starting to wonder whether the reputation is self made.