<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Inconceivable in 1993. How soon before you can Google all the past values of any expression in any program?<br><br>- David (from iPad, typos likely)</div><div><br>On Jul 25, 2016, at 3:57 AM, Thorsten Dittmar <a href="mailto:thormar@me.com">thormar@me.com</a> [self-interest] <<a href="mailto:self-interest@yahoogroups.com">self-interest@yahoogroups.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p></p><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;margin: 0px;">Maybe this is a stupid idea maybe not… </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;margin: 0px;">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.</div> <br> <div id="bloop_sign_1469443963840404992" class="bloop_sign"></div> <br><p class="airmail_on">On 25 July 2016 at 12:03:46, James Noble <a href="mailto:kjx@mcs.vuw.ac.nz">kjx@mcs.vuw.ac.nz</a> [self-interest] (<a href="mailto:self-interest@yahoogroups.com">self-interest@yahoogroups.com</a>) wrote:</p> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div style="background-color: #fff;"><div></div><div>
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<p>> Great examples. But you omitted the source code.<br>
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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.<br>
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Smalltalk people expected to read the source code,<br>
ditto for things like MacApp, ET++, MFC, all shipped<br>
with code and the expectation people would read it.<br>
The Lions book is another example. Software Tools.<br>
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Then came Javadoc - and now people expect to be<br>
able to read only the documentation. I do it myself:<br>
read the code in Smalltalk or Self (or Grace):<br>
read the doc in C# or Java.<br>
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a micro-paradigm shift if you will.<br>
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James</p><br>
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