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Wed, 03 Sep 2003
Methods vs files
In his reply to my post about macros, Avi Bryant brings up one of the differences between Smalltalk environments and Lisp environments. Some Smalltalk environments can version at the method level, but Lisp environments version text files. The only Lisp (related) environment that had the notion of methods being independent of files was the Apple Dylan environment, which is quite dead now. Gwydion and Functional Developer have gone back to files. But here was environment for a language that included macros, that was similar in spirit to a Smalltalk environment.
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Back to the Futurists
Michael Toy is pointing us to the
futurist programmers writings. Nothing has changed in 12 years....
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An Underwriters Laboratories for software
Tony Scott is the chief technology officer at General Motors' Information Systems & Services. In this CNET piece
he proposes an Underwriters Laboratories for software.
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