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Apr 16, 2014 at 22:46
Self-documenting extensible editor! http://t.co/RriVCVi19U
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Excellent series on Self, both the programming model and the tool chain. I love how opening an inspector on a value (e.g. nil) then shows a link to all occurrences of the value in other open inspectors!
Environment and the programming language Self (part one; environment)
Environment and the programming language Self (part one; environment)
I bring you a message about a language that has been at the birth of many others, but almost no one knows it. A rumor of a graphical environment offering options like no other, but almost no one using it. I also bring information about a virtual machine supporting reflection almost to infinity, reaching almost half of the operating power of C in numerical calculations in its time, yet today forgotten.
Mar 1, 2026 at 22:32
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There's something pleasingly self-referential about configuring an agent by talking to it. > Remember that [fact about data formats]. Agent: Noted. ... realise nothing happened ... > Write to your rules file that when I say "remember", I want you to write to the rules file.