I like to dig computer history, and when I look everything that was accomplished at Xerox and other places and what we got. The industry really moves at snail pace in some areas.
At Xerox the GUI systems were developed in Lisp, Smalltalk and Mesa/Cedar, the later being a systems programming language with automatic memory management.
Those systems had networking, GUIs, multiuser capabilities. Object embedding capabilities, the precursors of IDE and REPL environments.
Today we are still trying to re-invent those systems. How further would have we managed to be today, if those systems had been picked up as starting point.
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I like to dig computer history, and when I look everything that was accomplished at Xerox and other places and what we got. The industry really moves at snail pace in some areas.
At Xerox the GUI systems were developed in Lisp, Smalltalk and Mesa/Cedar, the later being a systems programming language with automatic memory management.
Those systems had networking, GUIs, multiuser capabilities. Object embedding capabilities, the precursors of IDE and REPL environments.
Today we are still trying to re-invent those systems. How further would have we managed to be today, if those systems had been picked up as starting point.