[self-interest] documentation!

Jason Grossman spam-me at xeny.net
Fri Jul 22 04:43:06 UTC 2016



On 22 Jul 2016, at 9:53, Russell Allen mail at russell-allen.com 
[self-interest] wrote:

> I wonder how it goes with the larger conceptual/framework overview 
> stuff.

I don't know.  I guess I was dreaming of harnessing the power of the new 
and shiny, even if it's nothing special. :-)


> My dream doc for Self would be something like the Smalltalk-80 Blue 
> Book:
> [http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Bluebook.pdf](http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Bluebook.pdf)

Thank you for reminding me/us of that.  It is great, isn't it?

IMO the worst thing that ever happened to object-oriented programming 
was the idea that if we write good code our environments will 
automatically be self-documenting.

Jason



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