The command line

From Wikipedia:

“… greatest single programming language ever designed. (About Lisp programming language)”

• Source: Daddy, Are We There Yet? A Discussion with Alan Kay

From Wikiquote:

“The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet. Don’t be misled by the enormous flow of money into bad defacto standards for unsophisticated buyers using poor adaptations of incomplete ideas.”

• Source: Squeak: About page: What is Cool about Squeak

From Wikiquote:

“Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.”

• Source: ACM Queue A Conversation with Alan Kay Vol. 2, No. 9 – Dec/Jan 2004-2005

El 14 de septiembre se publicó el libro Squeak by Example. Hoy lo terminé. Es fantástico. El lenguaje es impresionante. El modelo teórico en el que está basado es absolutamente asombroso Todo es un objeto. ¡Todo! Y si creías que sabías programación orientada a objetos porque programabas en Java, C++ o C#, déjame romper tu burbuja. No es así. Lo digo por experiencia propia. Me he dado cuenta de que he vivido engañado.

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