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It's unfortunate but understandable that the stuff which is most different from other programming environments grabs attention and the basic stuff is hardly mentioned. > break it i…

For example: https://drcuis.github.io/TheCuisBook/The-Change-Log.html

Back in the day those were not unusual costs for programming tools. (Beer wasn't free.)

Java being free-as-in-beer.

March 7, 1988 — "Smalltalk/V 286 is available now and costs $199.95, the company said. Registered users of Digitalk's Smalltalk/V can upgrade for $75 until June 1." https://books.g…

> You can not combine two (or more) images. Depends what you mean. Details matter. > You can not build new things by using "images" as components. Depends what you mean. Details ma…

== Long-ago, Smalltalk systems could be file-copied from say win to mac to unices and would just work. == Not standardized. Language vendors used proprietary code to lock-in custom…

By design, the 8 year old page you linked presented Lisp measurements side-by-side against Java measurements (by excluding the other programs). There's overlap across most of the d…

Which new languages have risen to prominence outside of a niche?

> The C/C++ implementations use SIMD intrinsic Except when they don't. https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/…

> Huh. The hardware changed. The way measurements were made changed. https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... The Java version changed. The SBCL version chan…

That's someone's 8 year old mirror of the benchmarks game website. https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

> … so that, when you look at an image, or when you use it, browse the code, you can easily see what are changes and what is the base image… You seem to be asking about something t…

fwiw "This paper has described ThingLab, a simulation laboratory." https://worrydream.com/refs/Borning_1981_-_The_Programming_L...

> People who don't know … can come to very wrong conclusions. Always. > … website should at least explain… Whatever the explanation, it would never be sufficient for you. As you sa…

Strange that "the software crisis" preceded Smalltalk.

So there were no problems with the technology? So "the pride and ego" was grander than any other tech leaders?

There'll be more than one that fits the tests. Some people notice these are tiny tiny programs which have nothing to say about servers "expected to run without issue for at least a…

Then we can skip ahead: language implementations aren't fast, programs are fast. And skip again: "Fastest" contributed programs, grouped by programming language implementation. Now…

> … the point of a reproducible build is to verify that the binary i use, or that the package i use is based on the same source that i have. I have been talking about how to reprod…

> if in smalltalk the image is my source As-before it doesn't need to be. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47354288

Sorry, I'm just not interested in wading through your analogies.

> If you're asking what multi-lingual benchmark suites offer good coverage - I don't know. In which case, given: The target audience wonder "Which programming language is fastest?"…

> apples-to-apples Hopefully, some of the target audience might try to confirm that programs are what they think of as "comparable". > Having more domain coverage is easier and mor…