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Dan Ingalls gave a brilliant talk accepting his much deserved Dahl-Nygaard award. Here he is holding the award, with Gorel Hedin, Erik Jul and (oddly enough), yours truly.
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A classic. Read it and weep.
A freely downloadable PDF of the famous August 1981 issue of Byte Magazine that focused on the Smalltalk Language... "don't mode me in" is more relevant than ever as is
#pharoh
#Smalltalk
#ZokuTalk
#real
#objectoriented
#symbolic
#ai
. 🙂💯♥️✔️
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One of my long time pet peeves. The terms "interpreted language" and "compiled language" are inane. Interpretation and compilation are implementation techniques, not properties of a language.
In today's news from Bizarro Programming Language world, Python is a "compiled language" so it's faster than an "interpreted language" like JavaScript.
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Following up on a recent discussion on twitter, a blog post:
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And now, for some good news: I'm honored to receive the Dahl-Nygaard prize.
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Self was one of the most brilliant language projects ever done. Most people don't realize what they owe to it. Much of the mainstream (Java & Javascript) wouldn't really work if not for that foundation (which they lobotomized).
The talk about Self language was recorded. If you are interested check it out:
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Most people are unaware of how much they rely on Dan's work. Bit mapped displays, window systems, pop-up menus are everywhere, and would not be workable (or would not exist at all) without him.
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I presented a conversation starter at Programming 21:
"LIve IDEs in the Web Browser: What's Holding Us Back?". Conversation starters aren't recorded, so I recreated the presentation/demo part:
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Dan Ingall's talk accepting the Dahl-Nygaard award is now online at: . Don't miss it! Sometimes not all of the screen is shown, but the critical stuff is. If you can't find the time, at least watch minutes 44 - 52.
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I recently gave a talk about PL history and design at Tsinghua University. It was fun, so I recorded a version on my Youtube channel:
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My talk about Newspeak on the Web is at . Actual talk starts at ~18:01 but my favorite part is the intro by
@daningalls
at 14:57 :-). Talk covers our IDE on the web, and the language via the expression problem.
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Types for an Untyped World. Discussion at Curry On 2015:
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Worth noting that Scratch was originally based on Smalltalk, by Self and Morphic pioneer John Maloney.
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Sad news, once again. Among Jim's many accomplishments, he co-authored the classic "Art of the Metaobject Protocol", which many can still learn from.
And another bites the dust :-(
Thanks so much for handing me that coveted pin way back.
RIP
@JimDesRivieres
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Reified Generics: The Search for the Cure. A new blog post on an old topic:
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Yesterday was the
@ComputerHistory
Museum's 2022 Fellow Awards ceremony. A great event honoring some of the folks who invented modern computing, among them Smalltalkers
@daningalls
and Adele Goldberg. It's now online at
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Before all the things mentioned, and fundamentally better.
Before the
#Apple
Macintosh,
#Microsoft
Windows,
#Python
,
#Java
, and Objective-C, there was
#Smalltalk
. Celebrate the 50th anniversary with Smalltalk pioneers Adele Goldberg & Dan Ingalls and moderator
@Markoff
Sep 1 at 7 pm. Register now:
#CHMLive
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I did a short interview at theCube today: plugged for Elm, Clojure, Smalltalk, Ocap, Live programming, non-nullable types.
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And obviously, most of todays programming systems were influenced (though not nearly enough) by his work on Smalltalk, a masterpiece of language and system design.
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Next Saturday
@ComputerHistory
Museum will be inducting their 2022 fellows, including Smalltalk pioneers Adele Goldberg and Dan Ingalls. It will be my great privilege to say a few words in Dan's honor. Watch the ceremony virtually on 10/15 at 5:30pm:
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And as usual, the world made the wrong choice.
When "exception" handling was first being explored in prog languages it quickly emerged that there were two possible approaches: non-resumable(c++, Java, JS, etc) & resumable(Common Lisp, Smalltalk, etc).
Seems to me that basically:
"Algebraic Effects"===resumable exceptions
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Should be obvious, but needs to be said over and over:
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So my QCon talk on Deconstructing FP is finally public (really), and with a plausible summary as well.
http://t.co/q2h0coRq4q
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Eve was one of the few interesting new efforts in the PL/PX space. It's a shame to see it come to an end.
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Sounds like some people doing REPL-driven development seem to think they've discovered something new. Still, better to rediscover the true wheel than rely on square ones.
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I'll be hosting a conversation starter session on live web IDEs at
@programmingconf
on 2021/3/24.
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When you have a lot of convenience methods, keeping track of them becomes very inconvenient. They become nuisance methods.
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Video of my keynote at Programming 17 is now at: . Pity they never zoom in on the screen - much is lost.
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Brilliant review 🙂 of my talk. One of my best talks, if I do say so myself. If you ever think I'm too much of a Smalltalk fan, this will show that I have many, many criticisms as well.
Hugely entertaining talk from a few years ago I enjoyed this weekend.
@Gilad_Bracha
never disappoints 🙂
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Recording of my keynote at Smalltalks22 is now online:
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Very true. Most of the complainers confuse mainstream programming with OOP.
Anyone complaining about OOP should go use smalltalk
#oop
#softwaredevelopment
#developers
#smalltalk
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Conception is kind of a live IDE for Go. It's in its early stages, but very cool.
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Adele Goldberg's keynote at Camp Smalltalk Supreme.
What really resonated for me was: 'You learn to write by reading'.
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Just presented Ampleforth at the Live22 workshop at SPLASH. Pre-recorded version is at . Actual talk should show up eventually.
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This year's Dahl-Nygaard awards have been announced. Thrilled that
@drossopoulou
gets the senior prize, and
@heathercmiller
won the junior prize. Both well deserved - great people and great work.
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Tough love for Smalltalkers. My keynote at Smalltalks 2016: where Smalltalk and its community could do better: .
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What a loss. Joe was a person who made perfect sense - they are so rare :-(
In memory of
@joeerl
, you should share you special moments with him, funny, enlightening or plain silly.
#rememberingjoe
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Live literate programming is becoming a reality. I'm also converting the Newspeak Web IDE to be exemplar based. I'll be presenting that the LIVE workshop at SPLASH on Oct. 19th.
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If you already know what a live programming environment is, you will enjoy this. If you don't, you have to watch.
My talk from
@strangeloop_stl
is out! There will soon be a mini-site with a transcript, references, and a few additional notes and corrections.
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The inaugural F5 Public Tech Talk, by
@marksammiller
, is now online at: . Great talk on securing programming languages, Hardened JS, ocap etc.
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@RealGeneKim
@ericnormand
@mtnygard
@girba
Even the name Hotspot was originally used for Strongtalk (and of course the tech goes back to Self). Here's a graph from 1996 comparing Strongtalk to other Smalltalk systems (and while I'm at it, IBM Smalltalk was a precursor of Eclipse)
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@jonathoda
@geoffreylitt
Do I need to say Smalltalk/Self/Newspeak once again? Not that Smalltalk cannot be improved or updated, but doing better is much harder than one might think. But it is the right approach - think of the system holistically.
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Who would have thought that package managers, those models of mainstream software elegance, have ill-specified, buggy semantics?
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@headinthebox
And it's called APL, is much better than NumPy, but no one knows what the type system is - but see
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What is a live programming system, explained in 5 minutes or less.
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Nice work on live programming. It's finally starting to spread out from the Smalltalk and Lisp communities.
Finally sharing the project I presented at
@liveprog2018
recently!
📝Margin Notes helps you read code by showing data examples recorded from actual runs of your program.
See some demos in the web essay:
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PL/Compiler opening: I'm looking for someone to work with me at F5/Shape. 80% is on internal DSL for security, mix of Java and Kotlin, may become Rust later. 20% would be ShapeRank, current POC in Newspeak, later who knows ...
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Last month I had the privilege of hosting
@inkandswitch
director
@pvh
as part of F5's public tech talks series. Peter spoke about Local First Software and the Broken Internet:
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Every day I spend a couple of hours teaching ChatGPT Newspeak. It's been a mixed bag, as the system is forgetful. But at times it is breathtaking.
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My ECOOP keynote, accepting the Dahl-Nygaard award, is online at:
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William Cook on the definition an OO language. Someone who really knows what they're talking about:
http://t.co/mlWOof3Q
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@geoffreylitt
I'm sure we are underestimating it - the hype is ofyten overestimating in the wrong direction. Ask not how AI writes a UI for you, but why you need that UI at all. Why do you need that "app" in the first place.
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@BretDevereaux
US military aid to Israel is mostly loan guarantees that get paid back with interest (albeit subsidized) and that money is required to go into purchasing US supplies. So it's largely a hidden subsidy for US defense industries.
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Thanks! I often feel I'm just howling at the moon, but all things come to those who wait ...
@awbjs
@Gilad_Bracha
I'm always amazed by how often I come across some game changer idea in programming that I later discover that
@Gilad_Bracha
was already talking about it for years.
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I'll be presenting Ampleforth, Newspeak's experimental live literate programming editor, at the LIVE22 workshop in December. It's an evolving work in progress, but the workshop submission is at:
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Oberon was really interesting; this video is much too stream-of-consciousness; I saw it demo'ed by an expert in 1995, which really conveyed its strengths (and weaknesses)
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@satnam6502
Static methods are an oxymoron. They have nothing to do with OO. Most of Java's features are like that (and I have listed these publicly, many times). See, e.g., . Maybe you could excuse this in 1992; Swift has no excuses
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A new blog post, about AI and the future of programming:
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Bidirectional WYSIWYG & Markup live literate program editing: .
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Finally (40 years later ...)
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New blog post (after almost 2 years). Illiterate Programming.
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I'll be there, giving a Newspeak tutorial, a talk on Docucentric programming, and participating in a panel. And
@daningalls
is giving the keynote! And there's lot's more. Can't wait!
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Cool demo of Squeak on GraalVM
That was great,
@fniephaus
! His
@TruffleSqueak
virtual machine is another fun animal in
@SqueakSmalltalk
's zoo of VMs.
It allows VM introspection, as well as "polyglot programming" intermixing Smalltalk, Ruby, Python, and R.
Rewatch the session here:
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Creating & Editing Live Literate Programs in the Newspeak IDE. A video, uncut, uncensored:
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Beautiful work. Echoes of eToys and beyond
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If you need to use Java, you should be using Scala. If you don't need to use Java - then you have options.
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Reminder: The
@ComputerHistory
Museum Fellow awards ceremony is tonight! There are 4 2022 fellows, among them Smalltalk pioneers Adele Goldberg and Dan Ingalls. I even get to say a few words about Dan's work! See it at 5:30pm:
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As expected, AI will rapidly become a key implementation tool for PLs.
Large Language Models for Compiler Optimization
Present a 7B-parameter transformer model trained from scratch to optimize LLVM assembly for code size
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As some of you know, I left Google for Tensyr a couple of months ago. Our web page is now live:
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I'll be speaking at REBASE. See:
REBASE will feature 25 excellent speakers over six days of conference in all time zones. Checkout the exciting line-up here:
@ECOOPconf
@hridesh
@j_v_66
@potaninNZ
@stevemblackburn
@_jon_bell_
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My QCon 2013 talk on Deconstructing FP is now available. The sumary is misleading, but the talk is all here: at
http://t.co/q2h0coRq4q
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I've long held to a principle of keeping my feed purely professional. I don't care to discuss politics or what you had for breakfast. Unfortunately, even of you are not interested in politics, politics is interested in you.
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@jessitron
@jonathoda
Not really. One can diff and merge source code structurally, without any recourse to files. One can do that in an image (and I have for many years, in Newspeak). And git and github are not great tools by any means. There just what you're used to. 1/
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@feenkcom
Todays IDEs are not the end of the road; they aren't even the beginning of the road. They are off-road, dirt-path dead ends.
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@HernanWilkinson
An interesting historic point is the idea that object-orientation originated in Simula; in reality, only inheritance originated there. True OO originates in Smalltalk.
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A well deserved tribute. William's contributions and insight as good as it gets.
Here's the official University of Texas faculty memorial resolution for William Cook, who defined so much of the programming languages landscape we live in. (Written by Don Batory, with assists from
@GhostofBendy
and me.)
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@jonathoda
Programming rarely scores high on 'newcomers quickly become productive'. But on the other metrics, I'd note emacs, Smalltalk and Lisp machines. The systems you don't want to leave to deal with the mess outside.
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With the advent of Eve (great stuff btw), seems like time to bring up my own old work on live literate programming:
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I'll be giving talk entitled: Bitrot Revisited:
Local First Software and Orthogonal Synchronization
at <Programming>:
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Aggelos has excellent taste; if you missed my talk at Rebase, it's now on Youtube.
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@rsnous
It's called an object. This is why serializing Smalltalk objects works, whereas serializing Java objects does not. Code is part of the data - never separate an instance from its class.
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Related to my blog post earlier this month (). Good to see the problem getting some attention.
This year the
@PLDI
conference hosts the first Build Automation and Programming Languages workshop:
If you are coming to PLDI or just happen to be in London on Saturday (20 June) morning, please attend and/or submit a talk!
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Bitrot Revisited: Local First Software and Orthogonal Synchronization
New blog post based on my recent <Programming 22> talk,
And a video (original wasn't recorded):
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New blog post. What do imports, ML modules and Polymer have in common.
http://t.co/26LHqNvu0Z
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Nothing concentrates the mind like the prospect of an execution. Executables are objects. Blog post at:
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@jonathoda
Can't say, but I note that in Smalltalk the problem does not arise. Everytime you look at some detail, you are struck by how well thought out it was.
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Laurie takes the trouble to overwhelmingly demonstrate that there's no such thing as "an interpreted language" or "a compiled language"
New blog: Compiled and Interpreted Languages: Two Ways of Saying Tomato
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