"Liberating the Smalltalk lurking in C and Unix" by Stephen Kell

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters recommend it in Smalltalk and Unix threads as a demonstration of runtime dynamism hiding in native binaries and shared libraries.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Strange Loop Conference

Topic

dynamic features in c and unix

Format

talk

Level

advanced

HN recommenders in dataset

2

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2016–2023

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From the original HN conversations

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• Lately I have been very interested in putting faces and voices to words. After reading this article, which was over my head but I got a little out of it. I ended up reading Stephen Kell's homepage, which is crazy intense as far as academics …

• Thanks for the link - that looks really interesting! I will have to give it a try to make some informed statement, but I think it's definitely worth looking at. Some parts of Ruby also seem to be inspired by Smalltalk, so that might be …

• I can recommend Stephen Kell's publications on this topic, e.g. "Unix, Plan 9 and the Lurking Smalltalk": [LINK] Video: [VIDEO] More on Stephen's research can be found at [LINK]