There is a re-creation of those lines of code (about a half page 
actually) plus the story of the origin of the code in one of the 
Appendices in the "Early History of Smalltalk" chapter in HOPL II.

Cheers,

Alan

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At 2:36 PM -0400 6/12/03, <diegogomezdeck at consultar.com> wrote:
>Nice article... In a paragraph I read:
>
>>  "It took about two weeks to write 10 lines of code," Kay said,
>>  "and it was very hard to see whether those 10 lines of code would
>>  work." Kay spent the two weeks thinking from 4:00 to 8:00 a.m.
>>  each day and then discussing his ideas with Ingails. When Kay was
>>  done, Ingails coded the first Smalltalk in Basic on the Nova 800,
>>  because that was the only language available at the time with decent
>>  debugging facilities.
>
>Where can I find these 10 lines of code?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Diego
>
>
>>  Last night I happened upon a quote by Niklaus Wirth to the effect of:
>>
>>  "You can drink beer or program in C on your own time."
>>
>>  (I assume from a lecture at ETH Zurich), and attempted to Google it for
>>  a friend this morning, but instead came across this article evidently
>>  scanned from somewhere else:
>>
>>  http://www.stanford.edu/group/mmdd/SiliconValley/Perry/xerox1.html
>>
>>  Always fun for those of us who weren't there (Hi, Alan).
>>
>>  On a side note, has anyone taken a look at Bluebottle?
>>
>>  http://www.bluebottle.ethz.ch/
>>
>>  -Jack


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