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Tektronix Smalltalk Document Archive (wirfs-brock.com)
4 points by stefanu 2321 days ago
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> H-P looks upon their Smalltalk-80 effort as an evaluation of the system as a personal computing environment for _non_-accomplished programmers. He also mentioned that they view Smalltalk-80 as a product usable by non-hackers.

This vision of personal computing has been lost. Today we have the scribes and everyone else, and industry is not at all interested in making systems that permit true "literacy"