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by igouy 11mo ago
So "possible to completely disable source code inspection/execution" really doesn't matter.
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by igouy 11mo ago
Digitalk’s Team/V unobtrusively introduced a non-reflective syntax and versioned source code using RCS. Team/V could forward and backwards migrate versions of Smalltalk “modules” within an running virtual image. https:/&#x
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by igouy 11mo ago
> compare the state of two images side-by-side Compare archived, versioned, source code. "Within each project, a set of changes you make to class descriptions is maintained. … Using a browser view of this set of changes, you can fin
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by igouy 11mo ago
“In fact, if you rupture your ACL, you're 50% more likely to have a heart attack than somebody who hasn't.” https://biology.ucdavis.edu/news/how-our-muscles-tendons-and...
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by igouy 11mo ago
Given that the instantiation of those objects has been triggered by Smalltalk commands; those Smalltalk commands can be recorded and versioned and replayed to instantiate those objects.
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by igouy 11mo ago
The point would have been different.
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by igouy 11mo ago
And then what? Say you made the foreground text color the same as the background text color, so you could no longer see the source code. You can no longer do anything. You can no longer save those changes. And then what? Better, say you did
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by igouy 11mo ago
How can it be fragile if there are "such good recovery features"? Just restore unsaved changes when you launch the same image again. That's robust not fragile. https://drcuis.github.io/TheCuisBook/The-Cha
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by igouy 11mo ago
1988 "An Overview of Modular Smalltalk" https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/62084.62095
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by igouy 11mo ago
For decades — "When you use a browser to access a method, the system has to retrieve the source code for that method. Initially all the source code is found in the file we refer to as the sources file. … As you are evaluating expressio
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by igouy 11mo ago
Let's remember: Java was free-as-in-beer.
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by igouy 11mo ago
> Users can inspect and modify the entire system, no? End users? Yes if you - want them to - let them; No if you - don't want them to - stop them.
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by igouy 11mo ago
> also retain the "scripting" (light) commandline approach Smalltalk developers preferred to do their scripting within the Smalltalk IDE, so they could use their familiar tools. And then save their "scripting" as a te
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by igouy 11mo ago
> none of the controls are native Depends which Smalltalk implementation. Digitalk and Dolphin and IBM Smalltalk … wrapped native widgets.
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by igouy 1y ago
And https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45681023
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by igouy 1y ago
> all your code in an opaque "repository" Without the scare quotes we'd call that a database. "Product Revew, Object Technology's ENVY Developer" https://www.google.com/books/edition&#x2
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by igouy 1y ago
> And a colleague of mine told me there are no source code files … And that has always been not true ! $ cat fact.st Stdio stdout nextPutAll: 100 factorial printString; nextPut: Character lf.! SmalltalkI
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by igouy 1y ago
March 7, 1988 — "Smalltalk/V 286 is available now and costs $199.95, the company said. Registered users of Digitalk's Smalltalk/V can upgrade for $75 until June 1." https://books.google.com/books?id=
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by igouy 1y ago
Some misunderstanding. I thought "small talk and four espressos in the kitchen" referred to an at-the-office kitchen in-contrast to "prepare some dinner at home".
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by igouy 1y ago
Is "small talk and four espressos in the kitchen" team building and "prepare some dinner at home" home making ?
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by igouy 1y ago
Fascinating!
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by igouy 1y ago
? "Model Release" https://contributors.gettyimages.com/img/articles/downloads/...
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by igouy 1y ago
Non-commercial use is sometimes accepted when unlicensed commercial use is not.
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by igouy 1y ago
"The PinePhone is a smartphone that empowers users with control over the device. It is capable of running mainline Linux, features hardware privacy switches, and is designed for open-source enthusiasts." Perhaps I simply failed to
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by igouy 1y ago
Is a modern phone a general purpose computer? What kind-of UI does a modern phone present?
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by igouy 1y ago
If you have questions, I'll try to answer.
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by igouy 1y ago
Yes. I'd seen Methods a year earlier and chose to make a prototype with Lotus 123 instead. Then Smalltalk/V 286 became available.
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by igouy 1y ago
> You can do anything you want in it, it's super flexible, the tooling is great, but almost everything requires you to just write quite a bit more code than you would in Perl, Python, Ruby, JS, etc. Given that Smalltalk precedes JS
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by igouy 1y ago
> And it doesn't really want to talk to the rest of the world—you can forget about calling a Squeak method from the Unix command line. You seem absolutely certain! Here's an example of a Pharo Smalltalk program call on the Ubun
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by igouy 1y ago
ditto So much better than the TUI Smalltalk/V

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