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by Homunculiheaded
4080 days ago
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From the amazing "Design Principles Behind Smalltalk"[0], which is short, beautiful and everyone interested in programming and software should read at least once: "Operating System: An operating system is a collection of things that don't fit into a language. There shouldn't be one." Syntactically, the SmallTalk language is relatively straightforward, but the power of SmallTalk is that the designers envisioned so much more from what a programming language should be. SmallTalk has a "World" which is an incredible concept (this is the OS/IDE combo). Of course, this means that you must abandon every tool you use to start working in the language. But in exchange you can click on any window and view the source code for it, see where it fits in the object hierarchy etc. Every part of your development world can be interacted with and modified. You can open the same world from a usb drive on Windows, Mac and Linux. Unlike Haskell, it's not the language itself that will expand your vision of programming, it's the approach to what it even means to have a programming language. http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk.h... |
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