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Relics Gilad Bracha recently posted an article "Bits of History, Words of Advice" that talks about the incredible influence of Smalltalk but bemoans the fact that: …today Smalltalk is relegated to a small niche of true believers. Whenever two or more Smal

A Personal Digital Habitat is a federated multi-device information environment within which a person routinely dwells.

My recent post on testing for negative 0 in JavaScript created a lot of interest. So today, I'm going to talk about another bit of JavaScript obscurity that was also inspired by a Twitter thread. I recently noticed this tweet go by: This was obviously a t

This post is based upon a Twitter thread that was originally published on December 2. 2018. There is a story behind how Tektronix Smalltalk became branded as an AI language in 1984. In the 1960s-70s, Tektronix Inc had grown to become an industry leading e

A Personal Digital Habitat is a federated multi-device information environment within which a person routinely dwells.

This morning I saw an interesting twitter thread: https://twitter.com/AndreiPacurariu/status/1330848498732986370 Tudor is the driving-force behind gtoolkit.com, a modern and innovative programming environment that builds upon and extends classic Smalltalk

Relics Gilad Bracha recently posted an article "Bits of History, Words of Advice" that talks about the incredible influence of Smalltalk but bemoans the fact that: …today Smalltalk is relegated to a small niche of true believers. Whenever two or more Smal

In late 1986 and early 1987 an ad hoc group of Smalltalk implementors got together to see if they could agree on a design for the next major version of Smalltalk, after Smalltalk-80. The intent was that what they agreed upon would feed into an IEEE standa

JavaScript: The First 20 Years byAllen Wirfs-Brock and Brendan Eich Our HOPL paper is done and submitted to the ACM for June 2020 publication in PACMPL (Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages) and presentation at the HOPL 4 conference in June 202