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by jdougan 5y ago
I found that Inferno was the best choice to try acme out, especially since that provides a much more consistent cross platform experience.
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by jdougan 5y ago
I would claim that it is Sam in vi form. Still good but not as strong at external integration as acme.
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by jdougan 5y ago
GemStone/S is a multi-user Smalltalk (with database characteristics). It has revision control and is quite fun to work in.
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by jdougan 5y ago
You can definitely do that in an image-based Smalltalk system, it is necessary to support the code browsers. I imagine the lispm devs had the same reason.
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by jdougan 5y ago
Obvious answer: 3rd party library support. Same thing that makes R ubiquitous.
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by jdougan 5y ago
There is an better alternate universe where xlisp-stat doesn't fall behind and S doesn't happen.
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by jdougan 5y ago
Now I'm imagining the Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers restructured as a pair of blogs with links and comments. I like it.
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by jdougan 5y ago
With both Casey and Jon Blow I find that if I mentally prefix what they say with "When developing AAA games..." then they are almost always right. Much of it doesn't transfer far outside that domain.
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by jdougan 5y ago
I'd have to spend a lot more time for a comprehensive list, but I can easily throw out a couple: "Computer Lib/Dream Machines" Theodor Nelson - a vision of a better computing future that sticks with me. "Courtship R
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by jdougan 5y ago
Sounds a lot closer to developing in an image based system (Smalltalk/Lisp Machine/Classical block based Forth/EMACS etc.)
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by jdougan 5y ago
Earlier and similar theories are Chartalism and functional finance.
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by jdougan 5y ago
Another fine example of "Our systems are the scar tissue of past mistakes."
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by jdougan 5y ago
Yes. Youtube Comment Search and youtube-dl (and others) can do so. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30566470
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by jdougan 5y ago
You missed nuclear power as flew on the Russian RORSats.
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by jdougan 5y ago
I usually use YCS [1] to extract subtitles though ypu may want to remove the timestamps before translation. 1. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ycs-youtube-commen...
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by jdougan 5y ago
More software development than CS, I was waaaaay too young to understand anything about CS but making computers do my bidding was very interesting. Microelectronics and the Personal Computer Scientific American 237, no. 3 (1977)(Sep.): 2
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by jdougan 5y ago
> Also that getting posted there was idiomatic for pissing off the wrong person. When I was a kid the usual way to refer to this was "He'll be pushing a broom in Thule"
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by jdougan 5y ago
Good to see all these references in one place.
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by jdougan 5y ago
Heck, back in the mid-80s we wrote a stripped down awk as part of a 2nd year CS course. Can't do that with Perl.
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by jdougan 5y ago
I always like to quote Eisenhower on plans: “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
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by jdougan 5y ago
David Buck may have you covered on the mobile classic Smalltalk front. . https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pigeontalk/pigeontalk-a... There is also U8, which has an unusual UI, but it is Smalltalk. http:&#x2
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by jdougan 5y ago
Exactly. A large chunk of their security needs were taken care of by locking the server and terminal rooms.
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by jdougan 5y ago
More importantly, thay had no major back compatibility requirements, a small amount of hardware to write drivers for, and fairly simple algorithmic choices would work. ("When in doubt, use brute force" -- Ken Thompson).
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by jdougan 5y ago
The spies lied too and, perhaps worse, the analysis back at the Center was motivated by politics and the usual careerism. The Mitrokhin archives provide an excellent look at how the played out in foreign intelligence, domestic spying was fa
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by jdougan 5y ago
0. Private Office at Home
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by jdougan 5y ago
I'd argue that the very very wrong models for fallout generation and dispersal were an even bigger issue. If they hadn't gotten that wrong, no one would have cared other than the scientists in the near bunkers who had to change th
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by jdougan 5y ago
Mainline Squeak development hasn't generated that much incompatibility, might be easier to start there.
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by jdougan 5y ago
The frustrating part is that there was a summer of code project to build a better editor in Pharo (I think the name was Safara). But as I remember, the author dropped it and it became incompatible with the next version of Pharo.
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by jdougan 5y ago
I don't know. All I know is that now I want an an emacs implemented in Smalltalk. Maybe copy the Genera/Zmacs approach, maybe something else (plan9/acme?).
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by jdougan 5y ago
If Smalltalk is sufficiently friendly to text files, it becomes an emacs.

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