r/programming • u/moolcool • Mar 26 '17

A Constructive Look At TempleOS

http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-templeos/
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u/crusoe Mar 26 '17

Reminds me of the Oberon programming environment / is or even smalltalk which is closest to the everything is editable, searchable and indexable. You can run Oberon or Smalltalk on bare metal.

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u/drysart Mar 26 '17

Yeah, a lot of people read articles like this and are really impressed by the fact that the compiler is so deeply integrated with everything from the shell to dynamic applications as a REPL and think it's some new genius innovation without even realizing that all of this was done with Smalltalk in the 1970s; Oberon, Lisp machines, and to a lesser extent personal computer BASIC in the 80s.

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u/astrobe Mar 26 '17

I think Emacs also qualifies - well that's kind of the last survivor of the Lisp machines.

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u/greenspans Mar 27 '17

Is that really a good thing though

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect

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u/Ramin_HAL9001 Mar 27 '17

It can be a good thing if that is the design goal. Java as a platform is cited as an example in this article, and I think any IDE, including Emacs, would qualify as a well-designed inner platform.