Industry Misinterpretations 138: Who Killed What
This week Michael and I discussed Bob Martin's RailsConf talk - which I commented on here. We ranged across that and a few related topics, largely dismissing Bob's talk. To listen now, click here.
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[Jecel Assumpção Jr] June 1, 2009 14:42:46.697
When looking back, things don't always make too much sense until we take into account the lag between the machines we saw in magazines and what people actually had on their desks. For example, I developed an application for preschool children in Smalltalk for a local university in 1997. This would be the end of the Pentium II era, right? Except that my development machine was a 33MHz 486 (bought five years earlier) on which Squeak proved to be too slow to be usable (and I couldn't get the sound to work in Windows). It was lucky for me that the old Smalltalk V/Win was released at that time for free as Smalltalk Express. Very lucky, as it turned out, because all of the computers I had to demo this on at an educational computer fair turned out to be old 386 stuff!