On Sunday, April 1, 2018 at 9:53:45 PM UTC-4, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > > A bonus of reading old Smalltalk-80 stuff is that you get exposed to a > bit of some of the best and most optimistic visionary thinking about > information technology, when people had grand ideas for how computers > could elevate everyone (spoilers: it wasn't about a couple billionaire > 'social' dotcom founders seizing power over everyone, and CS students > weren't thinking like startup MBAs). >
Amen to that. For fun I'd love to see Alan Kay play with DrRacket, then pick his brain. I run into clumps of Smalltalk people in unexpected places, such as at SIGGRAPH. For your Smalltalk-in-Racket implementation idea, the key is how you start out the project. If it starts right, it can grow naturally. Smalltalk and the Lisp Machine had some similarities. I don't see why there couldn't be a Racket Machine. People could live in it the way people live in Emacs and get so much done and have their ice cream too. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
