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by scroot 5y ago
They've moved down the street to a great new location and last time I was in there, a younger person was manning the desk (which I took as a good sign).
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by scroot 5y ago
This is great work.
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by scroot 5y ago
Shout out to the arts tower at Uni Sheffield, the first place I ever saw one of these!
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by scroot 5y ago
This is a very interesting post, thanks for sharing. If you come across anything definitely give us an update
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by scroot 5y ago
This issue here is research funding
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by scroot 6y ago
We are using Ohmjs on a project at work and it is fantastic. I'm hoping one day that Ohmjs and Ohm/s (Squeak) can be compatible again -- would love to have the Smalltalk version of our interpreter and environment we built using th
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by scroot 6y ago
Can you link to both the Maru community and the reborn Nile work? I've always tried to follow the latter, but [1] seems to be the only place to find information and it's been silent for a long time. [1] https://github.c
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by scroot 6y ago
> it didn't have that much lasting power. I wonder if the latter is yet another limitation of these tools - that they tend to quick obsolescence as tech trends move at breakneck speed. Hypercard dying on the vine has much more to do
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by scroot 6y ago
In Smalltalk, if you really need to find this, there is the Finder in which you can provide examples of input and output and it will suggest messages that implement the desired functionality. Also, the message does not need to be called &qu
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by scroot 6y ago
It is in the final section of the Blue Book [1], where the virtual machine is described in Smalltalk itself. Basically you have tagged integer values and pointers and that's it. The VM describes a bytecode set that involves manipulatio
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by scroot 6y ago
Piumarta's COLAs work, and Maru, does not get enough attention. I only understand maybe understand 30% of the COLAs paper but one can intuit that there is real power there.
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by scroot 6y ago
Walter Ong said something like (paraphrasing): "If the phrase 'a picture is worth a thousand words' is true, then why does it need to be a phrase at all?"
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by scroot 6y ago
To take the Smalltalk angle on this, instead of files you simply have everything in the system described as live objects. These are different from files because they are not just data. A system comprised of such objects has no "applica
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by scroot 6y ago
If someone can post a script or something that lets you extract all of your friends' birthdays into a Google calendar, it would go a long way towards making deletion more palatable
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by scroot 6y ago
Do you have an update on the status of this work? Seems like it hasn't been worked on recently
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by scroot 6y ago
It doesn't seem to be directly linked from the front page, but the zoo also contains the issues of SqueakNews, an e-zine published in Squeak in the early 2000s. There is a web player for them, too: https://smalltalkzoo.compu
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by scroot 6y ago
This is true. However, the language, the core objects, and the virtual machine implementation are described in the Blue Book well enough for someone to implement all of it. Like Oberon it's a description of a complete computing system
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by scroot 6y ago
Bookmarking this
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by scroot 6y ago
Smalltalk perspective: I work a lot with graphics (Morphic) and it is quite a regular activity to add or remove behaviors to custom Morph objects while they're out being displayed on my screen. It would be a tremendous pain in the ass
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by scroot 6y ago
> Our current state is a big disappointment compared to where most programmers in the 80s believed we would be by now, and very much in line with Brooks's pouring of cold water People not exposed to this era almost have a hard time
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by scroot 6y ago
If you are interested in learning more about DNS history, check out my thesis on the topic [1]. There is plenty of fascinating correspondence from the time, and interesting bouts of controversy! [1] https://gade.us/thesis&#x
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by scroot 6y ago
> And then there's this huge gulf in the middle There are some interesting experiments in the Smalltalk world right now with a kind of "gradual" typing. Because Smalltalk uses and image and VM, as you use the system you ca
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by scroot 6y ago
Yeah I also have a Remarkable (2), and the potential is all there but the execution on the software side -- beyond the excellent drawing capabilities -- is stunningly unimaginative
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by scroot 6y ago
What is sad here is that you are drawing on a computer (and a pretty advanced one at that), and you can draw buttons, but you can't make them "do" anything.
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by scroot 6y ago
The RISC-V spec is clear and simple enough to work with even for a dolt like me. I have started a project to implement the instruction set in Smalltalk [1] (shameless plug), along with basic CPU simulation. Hopefully I'll be able to de
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by scroot 6y ago
> Nothing has really replaced it, and Apples most popular current platform now would forbid anything with equivalent functionality. I think a lot of us will agree that it's a shame Apple allowed Hypercard to wither and die. What you
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by scroot 6y ago
What if computing is less like building tangible products and more like reading and writing?
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by scroot 6y ago
Or Oberon, which is a top-to-bottom system that is described in a single book
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by scroot 6y ago
The Hypercard days were a particularly exciting time. Back then, it seemed like more and more of the computer could be "authored" by regular people. Then it all seemed to vanish.
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by scroot 6y ago
Interesting historical note: AMPRNet was one of the first times that the Internet's NIC had to decide if an ambiguously categorized entity belonged in .org, .net, or would have its own top-level domain (in this case .ampr) See: https:

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