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"What have I learnt?" asks Niklaus #Wirth.
"#Programs must not be regarded as #code for #computers, but as #literature for #humans"
I hope that one day people will really understand and embrace Wirth's legacy.
We will have a better cybernetic world then.
https://video.ethz.ch/conferences/2014/wirth/d40b0ce9-b9fa-4ba3-8dee-cf9d0c6f01a4.html
"#Programs must not be regarded as #code for #computers, but as #literature for #humans"
I hope that one day people will really understand and embrace Wirth's legacy.
We will have a better cybernetic world then.
https://video.ethz.ch/conferences/2014/wirth/d40b0ce9-b9fa-4ba3-8dee-cf9d0c6f01a4.html
Niklaus Wirth Birthday Symposium | ETH Zürich Videoportal
Niklaus Wirth was a Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, from 1968 to 1999. His principal areas of contribution were programming languages and methodology, software engineering, and design of personal workstations.video.ethz.ch
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There are two orthogonal forces at work in the Squeak team [...] the incremental improvement plane (which #AlanKey calls the "pink" plane) and the paradigm shift (or "blue") plane. [...]
The forces in the pink plane have to do with making an ever-better Smalltalk-80 system [...]
The forces in the blue plane have to do with [...] an exquisite personal comuputing environment. [...]
One aspect is that things must stay small and simple enough that they remain comprehensible and accessible to a single person.
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From http://web.archive.org/web/20050406063507/http://squeak.org/about/headed-prev-vers.html
I'm always amazed to see how ancient is the quest for #simplicity.
#Jehanne, #Wirth's #Oberon, #TempleOS, #Squeak... we are all looking for the same Holy Grail, dreaming the same dream but in a different way...
There are two orthogonal forces at work in the Squeak team [...] the incremental improvement plane (which #AlanKey calls the "pink" plane) and the paradigm shift (or "blue") plane. [...]
The forces in the pink plane have to do with making an ever-better Smalltalk-80 system [...]
The forces in the blue plane have to do with [...] an exquisite personal comuputing environment. [...]
One aspect is that things must stay small and simple enough that they remain comprehensible and accessible to a single person.
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From http://web.archive.org/web/20050406063507/http://squeak.org/about/headed-prev-vers.html
I'm always amazed to see how ancient is the quest for #simplicity.
#Jehanne, #Wirth's #Oberon, #TempleOS, #Squeak... we are all looking for the same Holy Grail, dreaming the same dream but in a different way...