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Smalltalk does something similar. Maybe that syntax would be better for him?

And these extensions are for what use cases?

I wonder if this could be practical for controlled environment devices like game consoles.

I'm curious as to how time efficient that actually was.

Humber encoding?

Reminds me of the Xanadu Humber encoding.

I was always partial to the “make Wednesday a second weekend” plan. No more hump day and 2 “Fridays”. Of course that is also 2 “Mondays”

alternate futures where the 33bit versions of the i960 became the processor family of choice.

If you go through old CS OS texts on the matter, they really didn't have the same understanding of capabilities then as the later object-capabilities (ocap) model would introduce. …

I'm seeing about 9 comments, all flagged dead. Do you have showdead on?

At a guess, looking at his history, it's AI slop. Basic facts appear correct though.

In some of the draft versions of ASCII the positions currently taken by underscore and caret were left arrow and up arrow respectively. As late as 1985 I used terminals (LanparScop…

Being a full-time writer has always been a tough gig unless it is attached to an institution (but that can corrupt the writing). I'm not sure why anyone would think it wasn't tough…

Nothing new under the sun. "Put that there" demo, 1982. https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/put-that-there-voice-... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyBEUyEtxQo

Or for that matter, the magic that was a Tektronix storage scope terminal (and compatibles. At school there was a vt10x that had been modified to act like a Tek 4014 by some third …

Exactly. Most microcomputer BASICs were a live environment IDE, except done with a CLI.

Hemingway's style had a lot of influence. It would not surprise me if text influenced by it is widespread in the LLM training corpus.

Look up the WW2 FP-45 Liberator. A bad gun you could use to get a better gun. Theoretically you only need to use it once. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP-45_Liberator

Smalltalk keyword message syntax seems to be in a middle ground

Culturally they're not really the same organization. JPL has a different culture than Goddard, which is different than Marshall, etc.

I'm still of the opinion that the right direction is something architectEd more like NeWS with better underlying language support. If you're going to break stuff make it a real imp…

Did they get the sulfurous compounds out as well?

Did they do anything to fix the OpenSmalltalk VM lamentable keyboard input?

Have you looked at the tooling in Genera or other lisp machines?

In case you want to know more about them, they're called "Miller columns"