lately i’ve been reading the history of the xerox PARC language Smalltalk, and i’m only now beginning to learn how far ahead of its time it was.
because the grammar reads aloud in the opposite direction that we’re used to with C-likes, it seems impenetrable at first.
also - the “everything (and i mean *everything*) is an object” approach was alien to me, after 30 years of mixed OOP and functional programming.
i found it all difficult to grasp, until i found this talk given by Jadi (npub1s6n…c8vz) where he provides a clear, concise and totally lucid description of modern smalltalk in 10 minutes. 🙏
“Smalltalk turned 50; A pure Object Oriented programming language with amazing ideas from 1972”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSA_WFc1rl4
#programming #coding
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