[Cuis-dev] new YouTube video on Cuis Smalltalk

[Jaromir Matas]

On 22-Jun-24 4:01:06 AM, "lewis--- via Cuis-dev" 
<cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:

>This is a really good video conversation.
>

Great indeed!

>Juan explains Smalltalk and Cuis from first principles, with historical 
>context and highlighting perspectives
>

I'm not sure I understand the part about "knowledge" though: "Write, 
describe, communicate knowledge" - what does it mean exactly? Is it 
about Smalltalk as a language? The language itself is not that different 
from other (high-level) languages. A good language certainly is a great 
help to formulate things but it's still a "programming language". I 
guess there more to it I didn't get :)

Or is it about the whole concept including the live "OS-like" 
environment? But where the "writing knowledge" fits in?

Other question - Smalltalk was originally supposed to be the universal 
environment above the hardware level. Everything below the VM is the 
hardware (a machine language), everything above the VM is Smalltalk (the 
UI, apps...). Even the VM is written in a simplified Smalltalk (Slang); 
what was supposed to be the role of C - to stay as an intermediary 
between the Smalltalk level and the hardware or was (is?) it supposed to 
be eliminated somehow eventually?

And one more note about "easy to use, intuitive, for children" - this 
refers to the DynaBook concept, right? Smalltalk as a language is a lot 
of things but certainly not those things :) Simple syntax doesn't mean 
simplicity but it thank god it saves me from remembering tons of 
syntactic rules :) Anyway, many thanks for explaining the DynaBook 
concept!

Thanks again for the great talk!
best,
Jaromir

>  that may not be obvious even to experienced Smalltalkers.
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>Highly recommended.
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>Dave
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>On 2024-06-19 23:21, Mark Volkmann via Cuis-dev wrote:
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>>This just came out today. Great job Juan!See Cuis Smalltalk and the 
>>History of Computing's Future (with Juan Vuletich) at
>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sokb6zZC-ZE&t=3105s
>>
>>--
>>R. Mark Volkmann
>>Object Computing, Inc.
>>
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