> On 6 Nov 2017, at 21:00 , Andrew Glynn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Btw, did Self ever work? At all? The last I remember it was in a similar
> state to Electron without the M$ adds in Visual Studio, i.e. the samples from
> the site don’t build.
Self worked fine. It was a bit memory-hungry on the machines of the early
1990s, but I taught a class on OOP using it in about 1996 or 1997.
The NewtonScript language for the ill-fated Newton tablet was essentially Self.
A bit ahead of its time — it would run fine in today’s mobile phones.
Andrew Black
