[Self-interest] UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday 28th July 2021

[Hernan Wilkinson]

Hi Russell, I’ll be there too!

On Sat, 17 Jul 2021 at 15:02 David Ungar <ungar at mac.com> wrote:

> Sounds great! I'll plan to attend--would be great to hear your
> presentation.
>
>
> On Jul 17, 2021, at 1:19 AM, Russell Allen <mail at russell-allen.com> wrote:
>
> Hi guys
> The UK Smalltalk User Group were nice enough to ask me to do a talk for
> them
> The idea is that it is informal and interactive, definitely not an
> academic presentation, so it would be fab if anyone from the mailing list
> wants to join and correct all my mistakes :)
> Russell
>
> On 16 Jul 2021, at 8:16 pm, Giovanni Corriga <giovanni at corriga.net> wrote:
>
> The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be on *Wednesday,
> July 28th*.
>
> Russell Allen will talk to us about Self ( https://selflanguage.org/ ).
> Dating back to the late 1980s, Self is a prototype based programming
> language and environment in the broader Smalltalk family. Although Self has
> always been a niche research system, its influence can still be seen in
> areas as diverse as the fast VMs of Java and Javascript, in the prototype
> semantics of Javascript, and in the Morphic user interface used by Squeak,
> Pharo and Cuis.
>
> Russell Allen ( https://twitter.com/russell_allen_ ) has a background in
> law and computers and first came across Self in the late 1990s. Around 2008
> he helped get Self running on Linux x86, set up the Self website and GitHub
> account, and for the last decade or so he has been helping keep Self as a
> project alive.
>
> In this talk, Russell will demonstrate Self as a running system, including
> the object semantics, language, and the multi-user Morphic development
> environment. He’ll talk about the current status of the project and the
> challenges it faces for the future.
>
> Given the current COVID-19 restrictions, this will be an online meeting
> from home. Please note that the meeting will start later than usual, to
> accommodate the speaker who will connect from Australia.
>
> If you'd like to join us, please sign up in advance on the meeting's
> Meetup page ( https://www.meetup.com/UKSTUG/events/cbklbrycckblc/ ) to
> receive the meeting details. Don’t forget to bring your laptop and drinks!
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