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"It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures." — Alan Perlis I'm still not sure I agree with this: explicit data types are often nice. Following this maxim leads to pervasive lists or hash maps.

I had the pleasure of attending the Making Smalltalk event at the @ComputerHistory today! Adele Goldberg and Dan Ingalls were there, plus some videos from Alan Kay. "One of the tests of a programming language: can you write a debugger in it?"

Interesting short article by Alan Kay arguing that the problem with the web is that users can't modify the pages they interact with: https://www.squeakland.org/resources/articles/article.jsp?id=1001