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

David Ungar ungar at mac.com
Wed Nov 17 06:23:59 UTC 2021


I must confess I lost trust and stopped reading after reading that his was the first general purpose programming language. Thank you for pointing out the elaboration on the other page, but what was your purpose?

> On Nov 16, 2021, at 9:57 PM, Colin Sare-Soar <colin.saresoar at terrashape.co.uk> wrote:
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> That quote is from the home page, he does elaborate on the term on the about page.
>> On 17/11/2021 01:21 David Ungar <ungar at mac.com> wrote:
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>> I followed the link http://objective.st/ and read: "Objective-S is the first general purpose programming language." Were the others chopped liver?
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>>> On Nov 16, 2021, at 3:43 AM, Giovanni Corriga <giovanni at corriga.net> wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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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