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> Thanks for sharing, I love these types of stories. Really makes me pine for the "old" days, and wonder if there's a parallel universe where technology took a very different route such that languages like APL, Lisp, and Smalltalk are used instead of JavaScript, Java, and C#, and what that world looks like.

Easy, here is some time travel,

"Alan Kay's tribute to Ted Nelson at "Intertwingled" Festival"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrlSqtpOkw

"Eric Bier Demonstrates Cedar"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4

"Yesterday's Computer of Tomorrow: The Xerox Alto │Smalltalk-76 Demo"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqKyHEJe9_w

However to be fair, Java, C# and Swift alongside their IDEs are the closest in mainstream languages to that experience, unless you get to use Allegro, LispWorks or Pharo.



Nice links. For a taste of what to program in Pharo is like, see https://avdi.codes/in-which-i-make-you-hate-ruby-in-7-minute...




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