Smalltalk isn't about editing code, but executing a very long lived mutable program!
miniblog.
What are the refactorings that you consider essential? Is there a minimum set? More interestingly, can an IDE be complete, such that there are no extra refactorings that a user wishes to use?
What are the refactorings that you consider essential? Is there a minimum set? More interestingly, can an IDE be complete?
Whisker is a stacked, pane based class browser for Smalltalk. https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1993 (nice to see design alternatives!)
Joy is a mind-bending concatenative programming language with combinators: https://ncreep.github.io/language_perils/blog/2013-03-18-the-joy-of-joy.html
Aphorisms on programming language design https://www.rntz.net/post/2017-01-27-aphorisms-on-pl-design.html (fun post critiquing some common themes in PL design)
140 chars on Twitter feels so much more limiting after tooting!
TIL Debian disabled xwidgets in their Emacs build due to security concerns with embedded webkit: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=843462 (understandable)
New blog post:
"Helpful: Adding Contextual Help to Emacs"
@Jelv Fantastic, thank you!
Extracting machine-readable specs from natural language specs for ARM architectures, and finding ambiguities!
Still learning how to discover interesting papers. Google Scholar's related articles helps,and I'm trying citeulike, but there must be more.
Shower thought: can types be viewed as a subset of contracts?
Interesting claim: to what extent does OO promote setters simply to avoid unwanted/accidental mutation? From
Blogged: Helpful: Adding Contextual Help to Emacs
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