Learning from Smalltalk

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Smalltalk claims a bigger idea than just syntax it ships as an image-based VM that persistently stores live state and lets developers edit classes and methods while the program runs The environment includes a class browser, debugger, profiler and test runner and successful implementations like Squeak Pharo and GNU Smalltalk exist Seaside provides web apps OrderedCollection keeps lists sorted historically commercial seats cost around $5000 which hurt adoption but the live debugging and inspection tooling demonstrably work

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:08What is Smalltalk anyway?
3. 2:06Alan Kay
4. 2:25Dan Ingalls
5. 2:35Adele Goldberg
6. 3:38A Brief History
7. 6:00Patches welcome
8. 6:16Design concepts revisited
9. 7:26Syntax
10. 12:47Semantics
11. 14:55Key learnings

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