On: The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)

[rwmj]

This video of Dan Ingalls demonstrating SmallTalk on an Alto didn't get any traction when I posted it, but it's really quite interesting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30882555

[macintux → rwmj]

I’m not very far in yet, but three thoughts:

* thank you, thank you, thank you (that’s only one thought)

* the fact that Smalltalk is objects all the way down (methods, stack frames) is impressive

* his camo shirt (look at the chair) is quite distracting

[ModernMech → macintux]

One thing I'm wondering about is, what's with the cursive-ish font? It seems like a very bad time for coding. Doing some searching now I can't seem to find a reference (hard to know what to search for, Google thinks I might mean recursive). Does anyone have an idea?

[spindle → ModernMech]

Could it be Cream?

https://lists.cuis.st/mailman/archives/cuis-dev/2022-April/0...

[ModernMech → spindle]

That must be it! Thanks!