On Wednesday, 20 February 2013 at 14:13:17 UTC, so wrote:
On Wednesday, 20 February 2013 at 12:27:46 UTC, Paulo Pinto
wrote:
Smalltalk and Lisp were already doing in the late 70's, funny
how we ended up exchanging such development environments for
primitive languages like C in name of performance, only to try
to duplicate them almost 50 years later.
Every time I see a live coding demo I can only laugh and
remember I was doing that back in 1995 in Smalltalk
VisualWorks.
I was ignorant of all of this and took me more than six years
to learn such development environments existed and that is by
luck (more like hunch). This is still somehow healthy process
as i am going forward. What is your excuse? How do you put up
with this? You are so much better than me, because i know i
couldn't.
I was lucky that my university (FCT/UNL in Lisbon) had a strong
focus in compiler design, which made me experiment a lot of
languages.
That Smaltalk environment was used for creation of a reversi
clone. :)
It is a matter of what you get to pay to do. For example I would
also rather do desktop applications than web ones, but here in
Germany almost everyone is paying for WebUIs, so I need to put up
with it. Similar with programming languages.
Have you ever seen this video of how Lisp machines used to be?
http://www.loper-os.org/?p=932
The later model Ivory was even better. All of this in the 80s.
