this is so good, damn "These subsystems are all like isolated controlled environments, little heated glass domes connected by long, cold crawlways, waiting out the long antarctic winter. And each dome is a model Earth."https://twitter.com/rob_pike/status/1088307834717069317 …
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"the whole world outside your machine… is a forbidding world… their systems are so big because they must provide everything, and they must provide everything because nobody out there provides anything, or at least it’s so hard to get to anyone helpful it’s not worth it."
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I'm impressed by how well this 1984 note gets at basic philosophical differences (perceiving the comfort and power inside Smalltalk, but also xenophobia and excessive purism) and I'm impressed by how it anticipates work that would come later (Plan 9)
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it's even interactive past a fault! https://web.archive.org/web/20041113014607/http://www.object-arts.com/Lib/EducationCentre4/htm/programminginthedebugger.htm …
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I was about to complain about your characterization of this as faulty and then I got the joke. Nicely done. (This dev style was definitely my favorite thing about working in Smalltalk).
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going all in http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/81/838/CS-TR-81-838.pdf …pic.twitter.com/xOPcnNy7aB
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