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Self: The Movie;

Jecel Assumpção Jr · demo · Watch on YouTube

Programming language designGUI, HCI & interface historyHistory of computing

What it is

A 1995 Sun Microsystems film about the Self programming language, a prototype-based Smalltalk relative, showing its live, graphical programming environment.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN uses it as the canonical demo of Self's integrated, direct-manipulation environment whenever prototypal inheritance or live programming comes up.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2013, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “Related, and worth a watch”

    Shows programming and graphics closely interwoven in Self.

    sillysaurusx, 2020-01 · Strong recommendation · in “Organizing Programs Without Classes (1991) [pdf]”

  2. “This is a good demo of what could be done in the Self environment”

    Demo of what can be done in the Self environment.

    Fr0styMatt88, 2016-09 · Recommendation · in “In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999)”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: self, smalltalk, prototypes, live programming, sun microsystems

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