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Nov 17, 2022 at 18:37
The Self programming language, the optimisation techniques they pioneered, and the emergent design principles: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3ka4KY7TMTU (Stanford talk by one of the creators)
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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!
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