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by igouy 1y ago
May 1988 -- Smalltalk/V 286 -- on IBM-PC, PS/2 or compatible, with an 80286 or 80386 "INTRODUCTION TO THE SMALLTALK/V 286 ENVIRONMENT" http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/SmalltalkVTutoria
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by igouy 1y ago
Well, if that's good to know -- https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
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by igouy 1y ago
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
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Sun and Java failed ? Please share your example of what succeeded (maybe just spell out the last paragraph).
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Smalltalk does characters and pixels.
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by igouy 1y ago
"The major commercial Smalltalk implementations of the 1990’s all corrected these problems and developed various techniques for efficiently implementing blocks." https://wirfs-brock.com/allen/things/smal
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by igouy 1y ago
Rust versus C clang :-) https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
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by igouy 1y ago
Perhaps if you talked about software instead of house-building, sculpture, cakes …
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by igouy 1y ago
> A car manufacturer might conceivably branch into making other types of vehicles, plant equipment … Do you consider mattresses "similar things like that" ?
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by igouy 1y ago
> do you finish working on one leg first before you move onto some other part? Depends on the physical process. Are you carving, casting, bolting or welding or using 3d modelling and printing … ? > trying to stick them together just r
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by igouy 1y ago
Demonstrate that is so. Provide examples that are not physical.
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The physical constraints govern the development processes described in the analogies. The process for software is not constrained in that way.
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But not actionable?
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Software is not like "building a house" and is not like a sculpture and is not like a cake because software is (mostly) notional not physical.
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by igouy 1y ago
It isn't that "photography can be a lie"; it's that an experience can be staged . The role the photo plays in your examples is simply to record the staged experience.
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by igouy 1y ago
> Smalltalk allows you to freely define functions outside of classes Please show an example.
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by igouy 1y ago
> I thought fixed focal length photography was pretentious snobbery. 35mm (50mm on ASP-C) was faster (f1.8) and smaller and sharper than 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 kit zoom. And then 85mm (130mm on ASP-C, f2.8) wasn't much bigger.
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by igouy 1y ago
Seems to have missed VA Smalltalk aka IBM Smalltalk. https://www.instantiations.com/vast-platform/
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by igouy 1y ago
> I don't see why you need to restrict it to actual photos of actual things. We don't need to, although in that case, we might think of what we are doing as digital painting rather than photography. > some sense of legitimac
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https://criu.org/
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> Is it to replicate what he saw through the viewfinder? The experience is bigger than "saw". Is it to hint at what they felt? Later, looking at a purely-2d-visual representation is a different kind of experience than being th
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by igouy 1y ago
> it is meaningless to talk about "honesty" because they are so subjective. One can still choose to deliberately misrepresent something that is subjective.
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> joining them together in software What if they were joined together by exposing 2 different overlapping film negatives? You may enjoy "Faking it: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop" https://www.google.com&#x2
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With a previous Pharo version: $ bin/pharo --headless Pharo10-SNAPSHOT-64bit-502addc.image hello.st pharo is the unchanged VM (like the JVM). Pharo10-SNAPSHOT-64bit-502addc.image is the unchanged distro image file. hello.st is
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by igouy 1y ago
Yes, telephoto, tripod technique, stitch, crop, and trust that shows whatever you originally "saw".
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@ggcr The wiki page shows about 80 long lines of comment. What in particular do you think we should look-at and what would you like us to learn from that?
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> There are some benchmark games that I relied on in the past as a quick check … Try looking at the "transliterated line-by-line literal" programs: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame&#x2
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> we should be able to do better than text files https://gtoolkit.com/ ?
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Back-in-the-day Digitalk VisualSmalltalk PARTS: https://www.wirfs-brock.com/allen/files/digitalk/VSbrochure....
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> Okay, and what happens when you want to use version control? "This allows Git/GitHub to diff versions, and merge branches." https://drcuis.github.io/TheCuisBook/Daily-Workflow.html Back-in-the-day l

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