Squeak and Croquet Demo Etech03

Alan Kay and David Smith demo Squeak and Croquet As a working commercial programmer I really need to see things like this periodically to break out of the rut of most commerical programming. We have such blinders on that we not only don't see much of what could be done but we forget why we really wanted to be programmers and that spirit of our beginnings. So much is reinvented poorly over and over again. I got when I first saw objects that "applications" were a stilted way to look at what really could be an interacting ecosystem of objects and behaviors. And meta observation and objects and behaviours. Files are another thing most users should not have to know or thing about. Particular machines are another still. All of this I understood over two decades ago. And we are further from making it real, except for MUCH faster and more capable and ubiquitous hardware and communication, than we were back then when there was not so much inertia.