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by pjmlp 1754 days ago
Well, have a look at

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/interlisp_...

Then follow up with "The Interlisp Programming Environment"

https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/1981/04/01667317/1...

"Graphical Programming in Interlisp-D"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlN0hHLZL8c

"Eric Bier Demonstrates Cedar"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4

Cedar was the very first graphical workstation for something like .NET and Java would later kind of try to become.

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While that seems to be like almost lost history, and a forgotten art, it is not!

Because

[1] https://interlisp.org/

&

[2] https://github.com/interlisp

Thanks!