ruyvalle

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1. 1.▲
   by ruyvalle 2y ago

   not that I've done the LOC calculations, but I would guess Alan Kay, etc. include, e.g., Etoys, the equivalent of paint, and some games in what they consider to be their personal computing system, and therefore in the ~20 kLOC. and har
2. 2.▲
   by ruyvalle 2y ago

   guess I misunderstood your question, and also went on a bit of a rant. morphle said "you can write a complete operating system and all the functionality of the mayor apps (word processing, graphics, spreadsheets, social media, WYSIWYG,
3. 3.▲
   by ruyvalle 2y ago

   you can see for yourself, e.g. by looking at the Smalltalk emulators that run in the browser, reading Smalltalk books, etc. I think it's the "blue book" that was used by the Smalltalk group to revive Smalltalk-80 in the form