[Cuis-dev] Hello community

Fri Jun 28 11:57:27 PDT 2024

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.

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.

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. 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?

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.

Thanks again for such a wonderful language. Lets make this the way everyone programs in the 21st century.

Steve.
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