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by 1bent 1146 days ago
I'd forgotten all about that gizmo. Under the heading Steve Jobs in my memory, it got completely replaced by "the computer for the rest of them", with a GUI tuned to hide the computer, to prevent users from being tempted to use it as a way to learn to program computers.

The NeXT was competing against Sun, priced accordingly, and novel for being weird.

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There have been programming environments on iOS since 2011 with Codea. I started programming on my iPad using Pythonista in 2012.