[squeak-dev] Re: (Slightly OT) Dan Ingalls on FLOSS "Weekly"

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Sun May 25 12:55:32 UTC 2008


2008/5/25 Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org>:
> I enjoyed it too.
>
> I also felt that Dan was interrupted and the subject was changed too often.
> What I would have liked Dan to talk about is his coming back to the Squeak
> community as a member of the Board, his plans and expectations. I'd also
> liked to hear his thoughts about the FONC project. I mean, a little more
> focus on the future!
>
> BTW, in the interview it was said that the Lisa was a Smalltalk machine. I
> looked a bit in the web and could find nothing about this. Perhaps this was
> a mistake, and the Lisa OS and dev tools were Pascal based?
>
> Another note on the Lisa. The chief designer was Larry tesler, right? The
> "don't mode me in" guy. However, the Lisa had eight modes. The 7/7
> applications and the dev environment... If it had been a Smalltalk machine,
> it could have been modeless.
>
What you mean by modes? Video modes or what?

> Cheers,
> Juan Vuletich
>
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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.



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