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Software Reflections
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Software Reflections is a personal blog at simberon.blogspot.nl about programming. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Smalltalk: Swimming with the fish”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Software Reflections blog for posts on Smalltalk and Pharo, such as live programming and Smalltalk's meta API. Comments cite it as support and do not judge the writing directly.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Smalltalk: Swimming with the fish3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-10-02
What Hacker News says?
Smalltalk has a meta API that is designed to allow introspection and modification of both static and dynamic code entities [1,2]. Static entities such as classes and methods (and depending on your Smalltalk implementation namespaces and object versions) can be modified at runtime, i.e. while your program is running you can make a change and get an immediate effect. This is now known as "live" programming, however, i…
Comment linking /2013/01/swimming-with-fish.html
on “Smalltalk’s Productivity”Submitted Smalltalk: Swimming with the fish as a story · 87 points
HN discussionAs a diehard functional programmer (who used to shun OOP as a fad) who's been dabbling with Pharo over the last few weeks, I must say I'm impressed. And, like the article pointed out, I'm having the same "seeing the light" experience that I first had with Lisp and Erlang. After experiencing what OOP is really all about, an interactive environment with live objects sending messages to each other, readily available to…
Comment linking /2013/01/swimming-with-fish.html
on “Learning Smalltalk from “Pharo by Example””