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Does anyone remember Servant by Andy Hertzfeld? Which kind of blended the Finder with ResEdit, showing the resources just like it shows folders and files. Allowing to manipulate th…

> The sheer oddity + lack of real world example code floating around made it feel impenetrable not sure if I understand you, but you have the code of the whole system at your finge…

https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_05_201803/p... to read it in context. It appeared in the "All-CP/M Issue!" of Dr. Dobbs

Leo Brodie attended a https://www.forth2020.org Meeting and talked about Thinking Forth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr0uxJTvmsE&t=2998s

He sometimes joins meetings of the Forth 2020-Group. The last one was meeting #40 on Nov. 11. 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M14tCZiEPkg&t=11670s

IIRC It was "web first": See the presentation from Erich Gamma: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/events/visual-studio-code-... approx. minute 6.

Interesting historical document describing Pink which later evolved into Taligent. They even planned a toolkit for collaboration (page 345ff) :O

you can play several versions at archive.org: https://archive.org/details/software?query=glider&and[]=subj...

some context: http://www.wirfs-brock.com/allen/posts/866

the linked source-archive (at the bottom of the page) compiles without problems on a modern OS, or do you mean an application using it?

this one: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/masterminds-of-programm... ? Very interesting interview indeed.

BYTE issue "The Forth language" contains an article by Chuck Moore "The evolution of Forth, an Unusual Language": https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1980-08/1980_08_BYT...

out of interest, which modern stacks allow "live coding" your application? That is: no need to restart for various changes you make. You are playing/changing/creating with the obje…

I really enjoyed his presentation about writing the bittorrent client in haskell comparing it to an erlang implementation: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Combinatorrent-Haskell…

Just wanted to mention that Thinking Forth "A Language and Philosophy for Solving Problems" (also from Leo Brodie) is available here: http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net I learne…