Re:The Smalltalk Zoo
by pjmlp on Friday December 18, 2020 @02:05AM
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If you dive into the history of Xerox PARC workstations, you will find similar developer experiences for Lisp (Interlisp-D), Mesa (XDE) and Mesa/Cedar.
The graphical debugger, dynamic code loading, bytecodes with microcoded CPU configured on boot, REPL with access to the whole OS, the way OS, libraries and applications blend together, all there across all those language stacks.
The graphical debugger, dynamic code loading, bytecodes with microcoded CPU configured on boot, REPL with access to the whole OS, the way OS, libraries and applications blend together, all there across all those language stacks.