Das wird jetzt meine neue #Smalltalk Frage:

Kennst du das Konzept des "unsichtbaren Schutzwegs"?

Folgefrage, falls das Gespröch ins Stocken kommt:

Wie oft hast du ihn in den letzten zehn Tagen missachtet?

„Wir haben über Sie gesprochen“, leitete eine von vier älteren Frauen das Gespräch mit mir ein, als ich mich mit meinem Tablett an einen freien Tisch beim Bäcker setzte. „Ich weiß, die Leute reden immer über mich und ich weiß auch worüber“, antwortete ich. „Das ist ja auch recht offensichtlich“, gab sie zurück.

Das war ein für mich völlig neuer Einstieg in das Thema #Barfußlaufen. Normalerweise beginnt es mit: „Ist das nicht kalt?“

Hey, it's #AmstradCPC #Smalltalk time again!
First of all, ùCPM fanzine released their 6th issue including my article introducing the project (lovely designed and printed on CPC, and great choice of illustrations, unfortunately for some of you, it's in French)

After a few days of thinking, I decided to throw away my semi-generational gc, and instead use the Baker two-space gc. It is simpler, and hopefully it's faster. The memory "waste" should be fine, I have lots of memory anyways?

The original #LISP had 7 primitives: \(\texttt{cons}\), \(\texttt{car,}\) \(\texttt{cdr}\), \(\texttt{atom}\), \(\texttt{quote}\), \(\texttt{eq}\), and \(\texttt{cond}\). And the original #Smalltalk syntax could fit on a 5×7 card. That meant a novice could learn the syntax in a matter of minutes, and direct all his efforts to learning how properly to wield the power of that Turing-complete language. This was why, in the 1970s and the 1980s, many college freshmen were taught FP in Scheme (a more modern LISP) and many middle school children were taught OO in Smalltalk. These were surely the best "first" #programming languages.

#FORTRAN and #BASIC were simple, too. FORTRAN, the first high-level language, has been in continuous use since the late 1950s by engineers, who are not keyboard warriors. BASIC was invented in the early 1960s for teaching programming to non-STEM students at Dartmouth. It sired a whole generation of self-taught children in the 1980s.

Compare those to C++, Erlang, Python, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Scala, Rust, Kotlin, and pretty much every language in popular use today. Most consider Python and JavaScript to be the simplest of modern languages. Yet, they are massive, complex languages. No 10-year-old could teach himself those, nor should he.

The original versions of those classic languages cannot be used to solve modern problems. But they should still be taught to youngsters as their first language. Throwing in the kids' faces a modern enterprise language confuses them and discourages them. Consequently, many novices never attain that state of flow, when the joy of programming gushes forth.

#Simplicity is a virtue. Self-motivated learning is virtuous.

Wieviele Karmapunkte habe ich verloren, weil ich keinen Bock auf Smalltalk mit der Frau mir gegenüber im Vierer in der Bahn hatte? Die übrigens nur auf einen anderen zur Hälfte besetzten Vierer hätte wechseln müssen, damit ich mit meinem Mann und meinen Kindern zusammen hätte sitzen können.
#reisenmitderdeutschenbahn #DB_Bahn #smalltalk #Fedieltern

‘𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗢𝗠 𝗙𝗟𝗨𝗙𝗙 𝟴𝟱’

When talking about the weather isn’t your thing.

Lesson 4: Programming the Shooter Game in Squeak/Smalltalk https://news.squeak.org/2025/03/14/lesson-4-programming-the-shooter-game-in-squeak-smalltalk/

#Dybo script in action with #CuisSmalltalk #Smalltalk

LoL

https://anonsys.net/display/bf69967c-9467-d1c3-2146-7b6331848384

I think any large interesting program you might write could well have an embedded language within it, in which the user can write stuff that is just as good, and just as deep as built-in functionality. You want this. It’s a thing that makes programs compelling.

In #Vim, that embedded language is #VimScript. In #emacs, that’s #elisp (which in fact, I think the whole thing is written in). In a #smalltalk environment, you control the entire environment with Smalltalk, just as elisp applies to Emacs. For many, many things, that language is #lua ( #NeoVim, many games, #pandoc, #redis, this list goes on).

I used to think there were really two reasonable mainstream languages you could use here: #Python or #javascript. Between those two, for a long time I felt that JavaScript was the winner. I think that has changed as Python has gotten faster, more powerful, and better known. But also, I think the answer might actually not be either of these two. It might be Lua. Lua is simpler and faster than either JavaScript or Python. It’s more embeddable. It’s designed specifically for this purpose. It’s in much wider use as an embedded scripting language. I don’t want Lua to be the answer. I like Python better. But I think Lua actually is the right answer.

Wanting to go outside to start my biochar vs. Being perceived by the neighbour who is cleaning his mowers and would enthusiastically like to mow my lawn to an inch of it's life for free.

#dilemma #notQuiteAnHOABut #auDHD #hiding #smallTalk #actuallyAutistic #theDread

@actuallyautistic

Hm, dieser Wetterumschwung wieder… herausfordernd (sonst gibt es ja nichts Wichtiges) #Smalltalk

#Linn was most famous for its ultra-high-end record players. They believed utterly in vertical integration: the record players were made in their factory, using custom tools, controlled by a unique ERP/MRP software system they had written, all coded in #Smalltalk (or rather a unique , in-house, Smalltalk variant). (r b)

Custom halo, Flap of graphic objects to insert in #Dybo document.
#CuisSmalltalk #Smalltalk

A Story About a Memorable Acquaintance: https://lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-a-story-about-a-memorable-acquaintance/ #WednesdayWeeklyBloggingChallenge #SmallTalk #CityLife #Neighborhood #Neighbors

Lesson 2: Programming the Shooter Game in Squeak/Smalltalk https://news.squeak.org/2025/02/04/lesson-2-programming-the-shooter-game-in-squeak-smalltalk/