On 2020-10-13 00:21, Douglas Brebner wrote:
>
> On 12/10/2020 18:12, Phil B wrote:
>> Douglas,
>>
>> It's always good to see historically significant software preserved 
>> rather than bit rotting in darkness.  It's probably not going to have 
>> nearly the impact Squeak did in the open source world *since the Lisp 
>> world already has an embarrassment of good implementations (distinct 
>> implementations rather than dialects.  See CCL, which is a direct 
>> descendant of MCL, for example)* where Squeak basically had to 
>> introduce/resurrect Smalltalk in the open source world.  With SLIME 
>> they've already kinda, sorta stolen some of the key concepts of the 
>> Lisp workstation UIs.  Though this source drop may inspire some 
>> deeper copying on the UI front... we'll see.
(My emphasis added)
How I wish that the Smalltalk world had at least one good implementation 
(distinct implementation rather than dialect.) of ST80. Squeak is, of 
course, a moving target that leaves a trail of bit rotting software in 
darkness behind it. (sigh)

Trygve

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