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<body><div>Hi Steve,</div>
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<div>On 28-Jun-24 8:57:27 PM, "<a href="mailto:admin@stede.me">admin@stede.me</a> admin--- via Cuis-dev" <<a href="mailto:cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st">cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st</a>> wrote:</div></div><div><br /></div>
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After watching Developer Voices I was excited to download Cuis and give Smalltalk and the virtual machine a brief look. I must say I am amazed. I been programming professionally since the 90s and unprofessionally since the Commodore 64 days as a kid. I have tried everything from Assembly to C and everything since and I have always felt dissatisfied with the way we program and develop software ever since the beginning. I have had no real knowledge of Smalltalk other than it was the first real object oriented programming language.
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I always though Smalltalk was just a language until I fired up the virtual machine. How on Earth did OOP get detangled from the environment and wind up as Java I will never know. I never liked OOP but in my first few hours playing around with it was opened my eyes.
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First, I just wanted to say hello. Second I have a few basic questions I hope someone could help me with. I want to focus my image on AI and everything with it including consciousness, NN, LLMs but particular finding other solutions to the same goal.</div></blockquote><div id="x04b759d03cb84be"><br /></div><div id="x04b759d03cb84be">Interesting! I wonder how Smalltalk and AI could get connected.</div><div id="x04b759d03cb84be">best,</div><div id="x04b759d03cb84be">Jaromir</div><br /><blockquote cite="1336282188.504203.1719601047835@privateemail.com" type="cite" class="cite2"><div class="default-style"> If anything were to come from it, I was wondering if anyone has played around with the concept of using Smalltalk to translate my code to different languages?
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I am also interested in computer science and software engineering in general and hope to contribute to the community if I can in any way.
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Thanks again for such a wonderful language. Lets make this the way everyone programs in the 21st century.
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Steve.
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