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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


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There are two orthogonal forces at work in the Squeak team [...] the incremental improvement plane (which # 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 #.

#, #'s #, #, #... we are all looking for the same Holy Grail, dreaming the same dream but in a different way...

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