Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>>>>>> "David" == David T Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> writes:
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> David> On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 11:27:43AM -0400, Jon Hylands wrote:
>   
>>> ps - since I just turned 40 a couple days ago, that means I've been using
>>> Smalltalk for half my life - pretty cool :-)
>>>       
>
> David> Dang. I'll be at least 90 before I can say that.
>
> I was able to say that about 5 years ago. :)
>
> Not that I was 90, but that I was twice as old as I was when I first compiled
> a method.  :-)
>
> I think it was 1982 when I first got my hands on a Magnolia at Tek, executing
> the ST80 image.  If that was 1983, then that would have been only three years
> ago.  I *know* I was executing that before leaving for ServioLogic (later
> Gemstone) in 84, so that's pretty much a done deal by now, one way or the
> other.
>
>   
Hi,

Wow. Smalltalkers have grown up, that's for sure.

It was 1979 that I saw the Scientific American article on Smalltalk and 
1980 when I read the Byte August issue on Smalltalk. In 1984 I got my 
hands on a copy of Smalltalk for the Macintosh plus for USD$50.00 from 
Apple. It was cool but only had 50K free on the 1MB machine! How times 
change! Also, in 1982 I started the video game Gemstone Warrior that 
uses a limited from of objects in it's simulation - all things were 
objects from the user interface perspective - in Apple ][ assembly 
language no less. Not Rosettastone Smalltalk for the Apple ][ but 
objects non-the-less.

For me it's been over half my life so far with 23 years of hands on and 
almost half my life with 28 years of knowing about Smalltalk's object 
notions and building software without any hands on.

Cheers,

peter