Blog by Rob Vens

Smalltalk programmers have, for a long time, looked at their Smalltalk image with mixed feelings. They were happy to immerse themselves in the world of objects and learned to live in it like a dolphin in the ocean (which, as you know, was originally a land animal, turning to the sea), and make grate...

Dit is niet één boek, maar de eerste van een serie van 5 boeken (!) die Doris Lessing geschreven heeft in een science fiction format. Sommige van haar eerdere werken neigden al een beetje naar dit format, maar met Shikasta is zij er volledig ingedoken. In het nawoord hee...

Of course, the famous quote from Scott McNealy, chairman and co-founder of Sun Microsystems, "you have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.", has mostly been repeated out of context. But it created quite a stir at the time, almost a decade ago. Since then the situation regarding privacy has i...

Attributes of Smalltalk

As many in the Smalltalk community know, Smalltalk was originally designed to be a multi-headed beast for the Xerox Alto and other personal computers incubated at the Learning Research Group at Xerox:

• operating system
• development environment
• applications

But, of course since it al...

Introduction

Suffering, the avoiding thereof, and the pursuit of happiness, is a leading theme in modern, western society.

For example in the US Declaration of Independence it has been given an explicit place as one of the three unalienable Rights (next to Life and Liberty).

There may be a nuance of di...