THE VIDEO SHELF · self programming language
Self: The Movie;
A 1995 Sun Microsystems film about the Self programming language, a prototype-based Smalltalk relative, showing its live, graphical programming environment.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN uses it as the canonical demo of Self's integrated, direct-manipulation environment whenever prototypal inheritance or live programming comes up.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Jecel Assumpção Jr
- Topic
- self programming language
- Format
- demo
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 10
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2013–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Related, and worth a watch: [VIDEO] It's a video about the Self language, which I think was designed using the principles in this paper. I like it because (like Oberon) it shows that programming and graphics can be much more closely interwoven than we're used …
sillysaurusx on Hacker News · 2020-01
In Organizing Programs Without Classes (1991) [pdf]I'd point to the work done on tangible UIs and programming environments for that. For example, the work on tangible UIs eg- Self: [LINK] This is a good demo of what could be done in the Self environment: [VIDEO] GUI and non-programmability are tangential things. …
Fr0styMatt88 on Hacker News · 2016-09
In In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999)
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