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		billjings on Oct 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Discipline Doesn’t Scale I hate these articles that feature a programmer who works within a certain domain and assume all programming tasks are similar. Citation needed? Last I checked, Graham was working on a C64 Smalltalk80 VM as a side project, so I presume he's not completely ignorant of low-level development. And statements like "Your computer is not a fast PDP11" are aimed directly at low level development.

progre on Oct 21, 2020 [–]

It's Amiga Smalltalk, I think?

billjings on Oct 21, 2020 | [–]

You are correct, sir. I must have had commodore on the mind after that VIC20 Doom port made the rounds recently.

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