Fun article

Brent Vukmer bvukmer at blackboard.com
Thu Jun 12 23:13:07 UTC 2003


Anybody know if that appendix is available on-line anywhere?  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Kay [mailto:Alan.Kay at squeakland.org] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 5:24 PM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: Re: Fun article
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> ------
> 
> 
> 
> 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
> >
>



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