[Self-interest] UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday 24 November

[Hernan Wilkinson]

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On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 3:21 PM David Ungar <ungar at mac.com> wrote:

> I followed the link http://objective.st/ and read: "Objective-S is the
> first general purpose programming language." Were the others chopped liver?
>
> On Nov 16, 2021, at 3:43 AM, Giovanni Corriga <giovanni at corriga.net>
> wrote:
>
> This month, the UKSTUG will take a look at Objective-S (
> http://objective.st/ ), an architecture-oriented programming language
> based on Smalltalk and Objective-C, by hosting his creator Marcel Weheir.
>
> As per Alan Kay, “Code seems large and complicated for what it does”.
> Objective-S addresses one source of this accidental complexity: using
> software architectural abstraction to directly expresses the much wider
> variety of architectural styles typical of modern software systems,
> compared to traditional programming languages that still follow the
> call/return architectural style of scientific programs from the early days
> of computing.
>
> Marcel Weheir ( https://twitter.com/mpweiher ) started his forays into
> dynamic object-oriented computing by implementing Objective-C on his Amiga
> 35 years ago and hasn’t stopped since. Stops on the way have been at Apple,
> the BBC, Microsoft and various startups, as well as contributing to Squeak.
> He is currently a principal software engineer at Citymapper and PhD student
> at HPI, where he is trying to distill some of the lessons learned from over
> a quarter century of industry experience into Objective-S.
>
> This will be an online meeting from home.
>
> If you'd like to join us, please sign up in advance on the meeting's
> Meetup page ( https://www.meetup.com/UKSTUG/events/cbklbryccpbgc/ ) to
> receive the meeting details. Don’t forget to bring your laptop and drinks!
>
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