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smalltalk

BorgLisp at StS 2011

March 14, 2011 16:37:42.516

You have to love this intro to a talk:

In the early 1990's ParcPlace failed to license Smalltalk to Sun Microsystems. Thus Java was born (of flames of carelessness) and instead of the world turning into a green paradise of Smalltalk everywhere, it descended into a rocky brittle non-reflective torture pit where the traditional C procedure of banging heads against the wall to make headway prevailed

Here's Kjell Godo delivering that message:

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