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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

This 1988 paper reports on Smalltalk-80 for exploratory programming and fast prototyping at Tektronix.

Standard software engineering uses programming to implement a given specification. In contrast, exploratory programming is writing the specification.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/51607.51614

Some of the parallels the paper draws to Interlisp-D are not entirely accurate.

https://groups.google.com/g/lispcore/c/G9ozbhT2OnQ/m/-XF_Ufm6CAAJ

#smalltalk #interlisp #retrocomputing

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ggtr1138
@ggtr1138@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@amoroso Thanks for this reference, I'm having fun with Cuis Smalltalk right now and this and Pharo may be the programming environnements I will use for my hobby programming for the future. Interlisp seems cool too!
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ggtr1138 You're welcome. In case you're interested the @interlisp has a Mastodon account.
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