A little off topic but nice reflections on Smalltalk vs. outside world:
https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2020/05/bits-of-history-words-of-advice.html

Best,
Karl

On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 10:30 AM Stéphane Rollandin <lecteur at zogotounga.net>
wrote:

> > I still prefer having an opened platform to being lock in own autistic
> > world, but sometimes i wonder until which limit it is really worth...
>
> This remark has a wide and deep reach and applies pretty much to any
> life situation, individual or collective. In short, where is the limit
> between 'self' and 'the rest of the world'?
>
> Since there is no definite answer to this question then maybe, following
> the traditional Smalltalk way, should we reify it and construct the
> proper objects and protocols able to deal with its different specific
> aspects- have classes reflecting the 'external world' so to say.
>
> In other words, the implementation details of the external systems do
> not have to enter the image, but there could be a (rather wide) layer of
> abstraction within the image that tells the rest of the system what is
> outside and how we are interfaced to it, with switches to allow, for a
> given situation, either to retract in our autistic world (where backward
> compatibility and resilience are ensured) or open up to a specific API,
> (where the risk of obsolescence and deprecation exist, but are then made
> explicit and dealable with).
>
> Just hand-waving here...
>
> Stef
>
>
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