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Alan C. Kay: The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)

• marvel_boy 11y ago
  Smallltalk is a dream language. It's tooling, syntax and productivity is years ahead of anything. Take for example the Swift language. It's great, yes. But when you see ppl admiring the interactive playground: this is the Transcript windows available on Smalltalk 20-30 years ago !
  • zvrba 11y ago
    People who had to maintain complex financial systems would disagree. They were slowly migrating to, IIRC, Java.
    • marvel_boy 11y ago
      Do you know what is the main novelty of last version of Java? Yes, "lambdas", available on Smalltalk 30 years ago from day-one.
      • zvrba 11y ago
        Their reasons were maintainability due to static typing.
• jcr 11y ago
  previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9588316 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9588316 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7926141 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7926141 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1311282 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1311282