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0 pointsmikelevins6y ago0 comments

Thanks; I looked back myself. Boy, I like to talk about Ralph, huh?

To be expected, I suppose. It really was my favorite working language ever.

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dang6y ago· 2 in thread

Please keep talking! Your comments are superb.

Yeah this is cool. I did not know live coding was a thing. I'd like to see a video of that to compare with autobuild workflows that watch files for modification times.

mikelevinsOP6y ago

There's this recent video showing a little of what the Pharo Smalltalk environment is like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOuZyOKa91o

The video was made by a Ruby programmer, rather than an experience Smalltalker, so it's more a newbie showing you cool things he's discovered, rather than an expert showing the power of the system.

On the other hand, there's this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-YnLpLgtk

That one is an expert, Kalman Reti, showing some of what it's like to work with a Symbolics Lisp Machine. (It's not a real Lisp machine; they're all at least thirty years old now; this is an emulator running the old Symbolics OS on Linux).

Go to YouTube and search for Rainer Joswig and you'll find a few video demos of Lisp Machines and MCL and so forth.

Finally, here are a few images from about eighteen years ago, also from Rainer. They show various views of the Macintosh Common Lisp and SK8 environments. It's not an experienced user showing you around, but at least you can get some idea what the environments looked like:

http://www.lemonodor.com/archives/000028.html

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