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A comment on Alan Kay's talk at UCLA – Feb 21, 2024 [video]. Parent comment

Re:Alan Kay's talk at UCLA – Feb 21, 2024 [video] by igouy on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @08:19PM (#39623991)
"Rudolph Technologies Helps Semiconductor Customers Reach Market Faster with Smalltalk-Based ControlWORKS"

https://www.cincom.com/pdf/CS050418-1.pdf

Someone suggested Smalltalk a million lines long which I have no way to confirm or contradict ;-)

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Re:Alan Kay's talk at UCLA – Feb 21, 2024 [video] by rbanffy on Thursday March 07, 2024 @08:20AM (#39628710)
Cincom Systems has been a pioneer of extremely productive programming tools since ever. My first real programming internship was on an IBM 4381 running their Mantis 4GL tool (in 1984-ish).

I like to compare it to Ruby on Rails. Mantis is Ruby on Rails for the 3278 (and Dataflex 2 would be Ruby on Rails for the VT-100).

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