<div dir="ltr">Hello<div>I finally found it.</div><div>It was in Appendix A "Design Distinctions Behind Smalltalk" from Andres Valloud's "A Mentoring Course on Smalltalk".</div><div>The book in question was Spencer-Brown's "Law of Forms".</div><div>Thanks for all the clues!</div><div>Cheers</div><div>Nacho</div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font size="2">Ignacio Sniechowski</font></b><b><br></b></div><div><br></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><br></div><div><b></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b></b><br></div><b><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><br></b><b><br></b><b><br></b><div><br><br><div style="text-align:left"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 6:32 PM Nicolás Papagna Maldonado <<a href="mailto:nicolas.papagna@gmail.com">nicolas.papagna@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Nacho!<br><div><br></div><div>If the book was about biology, Alan always talks about <a href="https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Bruce-Alberts/dp/0815316208" target="_blank">The Molecular Biology of the Cell (3rd edition)</a>. He usually emphasized that particular edition hits the "sweet spot".</div><div><br></div><div>If it was about Dan, you might have some luck asking in the California Smalltakers UG channel <a href="https://discord.com/channels/299900306538364928/299900306538364928" target="_blank">on discord</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>Let us know if you find the answers you were looking for.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Nico PM</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 4:59 PM Rafael Ignacio Matías Sniechowski via Cuis-dev <<a href="mailto:cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st" target="_blank">cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hi Hernan,</div><div dir="auto">Yeah I know and read and re read the article many times. I was just asking, recently I read a thread somewhere in which they quote the article and, in parallel, quoted another book, article that was popular around the time the Xerox Parc gang was working on ST. And there were some amazing coincidences. But unfortunately I can’t recall where I read that...</div><div dir="auto">Thanks anyway</div><div dir="auto">Cheers </div><div dir="auto">Nacho</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">El El dom, 18 abr. 2021 a la(s) 15:14, Hernan Wilkinson <<a href="mailto:hernan.wilkinson@10pines.com" target="_blank">hernan.wilkinson@10pines.com</a>> escribió:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Rafael,<br><div> I'm not sure what you are looking for but:</div><div>1) If you are looking for the paper Design Principles behind Smalltalk, here is a link: <a href="https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk.html" target="_blank">https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk.html</a><br>It was part of the byte magazine of August 81, you can find it too googling</div><div>2) He never wrote a book but chapters in some books like the green book (Smalltalk 80, Bits of history words of advice)</div><div>3) He made a OCR program in Smalltalk while working at Xerox to scan and translate a book written in sanskrit, something related to his father work. The link to that is in his paper of HOPL IV about Smalltalk: <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3386335" target="_blank">https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3386335</a></div><div><br></div><div> That's all I can think of based on your email... I hope it helps :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Hernan.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 1:16 PM Rafael Ignacio Matías Sniechowski via Cuis-dev <<a href="mailto:cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st" target="_blank">cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Cuisers<div>Perhaps this is a little off-topic.</div><div><br></div><div>But I need your help. Recently, I don't remember whether it was on Twitter, on a chat of some of the UK or California Smalltalk groups, some list...I read a comment, post, linking Dan's work with a book. I guess it was a book it was kind of popular at that time (I have the feeling the book was about biology but I'm not sure), it's all my memory can recall right now.....</div><div><br></div><div>Anyone happens to read, recall or know this?</div><div>Thanks in advance</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font size="2">Ignacio Sniechowski</font></b><b><br></b></div><div><br></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><br></div><div><b></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b></b><br></div><b><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><br></b><b><br></b><b><br></b><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="text-align:left"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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