Talk Like A Duck : Will It Go Round in Circles? - Rick DeNatale - 0 views
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VisualAge started out as a demonstration prototype I wrote using Digitalk Smalltalk/V. The idea was to make something like the NeXT interface builder in Smalltalk as an adjunct to the Smalltalk IDE. For those who are not hip to such things, the Interface Builder, originally a Lisp program before Steve Jobs hired the author, lives on as part of Apple’s XCode tool suite for OS/X for the Mac and the iPhone.
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David Corking on 07 Jun 09Beautifully convoluted history! Lisp -> Objective-C -> Smalltalk -> Java -> Smalltalk
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VisualAge started out as a demonstration prototype I wrote using Digitalk Smalltalk/V. The idea was to make something like the NeXT interface builder in Smalltalk as an adjunct to the Smalltalk IDE. For those who are not hip to such things, the Interface Builder, originally a Lisp program before Steve Jobs hired the author, lives on as part of Apple’s XCode tool suite for OS/X for the Mac and the iPhone.
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A fascinating and brief horse's mouth history of dynamic languages and IDEs - with several things I didn't know already.
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Some things you may not have known about the family tree of Interface Builder.