🕰️ The Xerox Smalltalk-80 GUI Was Weird
ᐅ Collin Donnell
｢ The creators of Smalltalk wanted to make a system where the person using it was also modifying and programming the system as they used it. That’s really cool as a programming environment, but not really how we think of normal people using computers today ｣
https://collindonnell.com/the-xerox-smalltalk-80-gui-was-weird
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