> 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"
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.
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.