2025-05-25-sun-byte-smalltalk

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...the ideas here are just so profoundly—just completely changed the way generations of programmers expect to work.

code-with-huw describes how the August 1981 issue of Byte Magazine, with Smalltalk as the cover story, changed computing for the broader public. It introduced them to OOP, desktops, and the humble mouse.

Shifted assumptions from "green text on a black background" TTYs and Fortran/BASIC/Pascal to OOP, desktop environments, mice, graphics on-screen.

archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08

"Don't mode me in"

(growls in nvim)

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