And I mean literally killing - making a system that is essentially alive essentially dead.
Smalltalk, being image-based, has one property that makes it different from superficially similar systems (like, say, Ruby with an IDE) - it is a living collection of objects (or ducks, or turtles, whatever the word du jour for them things […]

Since a couple of days, I have a funny guest in my living room. It is september, spider time, which was made clear to me when I walked with my face into a web when stepping out of the front door yesterday , but usually I know what sort of folk I have around […]

Grounded at home because of a serious backpain, I’ve finally been able to get through my backlog of books. Among others, I worked my way through a couple of books that for some reason were on sale at a bookstore here for 1 euro each - two fiction books, The Final Solution: A Story of […]