an amusing Neal Stephenson quote
Russell Allen
russell.allen at firebirdmedia.com
Wed Jun 16 06:54:36 UTC 1999
I read the article and was converted. If Squeak programmers were *real*
programmers, we'd have a Squeak command line. Morphic is for wimps!
:)
Russell
PS if Linux is a tank, and BeOS a batmobile, what is Squeak?
> From his (also amusing) essay "In the Beginning was the Command
>Line", while discussing GUIs as mediated experiences, during a Disney
>World analogy...
>
> "Disney does mediated experiences better than anyone. If they
>understood what OSes are, and why people use them, they could crush
>Microsoft in a year or two."
>
> http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html
>
>
>-C
>
>
>--
>Craig Latta
>composer and computer scientist
>craig.latta at netjam.org
>www.netjam.org
>latta at interval.com
>Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)]
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russell.allen at firebirdmedia.com
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