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Re:Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981) by Mikeb85 on Friday May 20, 2022 @12:50PM (#31449914)
Literally almost every piece of consumer facing software is created using languages or frameworks that derive from Smalltalk-esque principles (OOP, MVP, IDEs, etc...).

And the creative spirit is what brings innovation. Tons of what's obvious now wasn't obvious when someone created it.

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Re:Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981) by igouy on Saturday May 21, 2022 @11:00PM (#31464501)
Xerox PARC has certainly been influential: "The Alto software included four different programming environments: BCPL, Mesa, Smalltalk, and Lisp."

https://computerhistory.org/blog/xerox-alto-source-code/

https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-deep-history-of-your-ap...

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