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There's a whole category of utopian developer environments and languages with far bigger aspirations than they were able to achieve but that still influenced others. Smalltalk being another example.

One of my favorite things about the old C2 Wards Wiki is that it's like an archaeological site where time is frozen in this period and you can browse through preserved arguments about how Smalltalk and Extreme Programming will take over the world.




And they did, in the usual half-a**ed, broken, honoured-more-in-the-breach-than-the-observance way such ideas usually get mass adopted.




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