[self-interest] Re: documentation

[David Ungar]

Inconceivable in 1993. How soon before you can Google all the past values of any expression in any program?

- David (from iPad, typos likely)

> On Jul 25, 2016, at 3:57 AM, Thorsten Dittmar thormar at me.com [self-interest] <self-interest at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Maybe this is a stupid idea maybe not… 
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> when I have it correctly in mind we have a binary code cache. in this cache “all the past" combinations of parameters are stored as a different “binary snippet”. maybe it would be a good idea to make this accessible from the editor. So a kind of a "mouse over” for a parameter, which will show up which objects where involved in the past.
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>> On 25 July 2016 at 12:03:46, James Noble kjx at mcs.vuw.ac.nz [self-interest] (self-interest at yahoogroups.com) wrote:
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>>  
>> > Great examples. But you omitted the source code.
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>> and this I think is one of the most significant cultural changes between Smalltalk and Java -- pretty much a generational change.
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>> Smalltalk people expected to read the source code,
>> ditto for things like MacApp, ET++, MFC, all shipped
>> with code and the expectation people would read it.
>> The Lions book is another example. Software Tools.
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>> Then came Javadoc - and now people expect to be
>> able to read only the documentation. I do it myself:
>> read the code in Smalltalk or Self (or Grace):
>> read the doc in C# or Java.
>> 
>> a micro-paradigm shift if you will.
>> 
>> James
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