Allen Wirfs-Brock@awbjs

Dreaming the future of software; Project Editor ECMAScript 2015; Reformed Smalltalker JavaScript historian dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114… @allenwb@mastodon.social

 Sherwood Oregon USA
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Joined June 2010
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Last call:I invite you join us for all or part of the Patterns Conference PLoP 2020 next week. Registration is 10$. We have invited speakers, introductory sessions on patterns&more, but the main focus is on writers' workshops where papers are discussed hillside.net/plop/2020/index…
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Allen Wirfs-Brock@awbjs
9 Oct 2020
Replying to @pigworker @DrDeeGlaze
HOPL, Authorized? Wrong characterization. Definitely rigorously curated. As a HOPL4 PC member & author I can say that the HOPL process was incredible. Designed to produce historically accurate papers from primary sources. See: hopl4.sigplan.org/getImage/o… hopl4.sigplan.org/getImage/o…
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Object schema evolution, particular WRT object data bases, was a quite active research area in 1980s-90s. Much of the literature is relevant to this problem
Shalabh@chatur_shalabh
6 Oct 2020
A well written publication. Clearly highlights the problems encountered with schema evolution in distributed systems. I've often thought of schema evolution as a deep problem. Strangely, reading this pushed me more towards the OO ideas of behavior and encapsulation.
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This is great...not many pure software companies. Notiny that Winchester Mystery House got included but Xerox PARC wasn't 🤔
Steve@stevecheney
4 Oct 2020
1991 Silicon Valley
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Pretty much every programmer would like to be a language designer, but few understand the challenges. Almost every reply to @jennschiffer's tweet could be the topic for a final paper for a graduate level course on programming language design.
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Oops, should have quote tweeted top of thread
Continuing on the theme of grabbing for the new shiny thing...an experience report
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Allen Wirfs-Brock retweeted
Jonathan Edwards
@jonathoda
30 Sep 2020
Replying to @stephenrkell
Winning solutions combine technical innovation with compelling slogans. Twitter is a good place to develop your slogans.
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Dave Winer
@davewiner
30 Sep 2020
Replying to @awbjs
Another measure of maturity is the depth of your codebase. The new model often doesn’t fit in the existing structure. If you don’t have a codebase there are no constraints.
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A sign of the relative immaturity of the web development community is the rush to use the latest shiny thing. More mature developers say, we’ve lived without this up until now. If it’s still around in a few years we’ll use it.
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New language/framework features are fun and exciting to learn. They are seldom essential for your current project.
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Allen Wirfs-Brock retweeted
Allen Wirfs-Brock@awbjs
30 Sep 2020
Replying to @RReverser @ljharb @leobalter @_shu @justinfagnani
“ship it, it’s done, unless…” absolutely was not the intent when we were originally defining the process stages. The intent was more like “It’s time to get it out into the real world to see whether we’ve got anything wrong"
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Text *is* binary; it's only because ASCII and now UTF-n {en,de}coders are ubiquitous that we get to ignore that.
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The Pattern Languages of Programs Conference is Oct 12-16 & is virtual this year. Correspondingly registration only costs $10 USD. It’s a great opportunity to learn about and discuss patterns. hillside.net/plop/2020/index… I invite you to come and join fellow patterns enthusiasts
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Allen Wirfs-Brock retweeted
Allen Wirfs-Brock@awbjs
28 Sep 2020
Replying to @davewiner
A short history/rationale of the ES6 module design from JavaScript: The First 20 Years wirfs-brock.com/allen/files/…
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So the saga continues... Sherwood Broadband getting ready to drill under the county road. Looks like we might have live fiber before the end of October. @rebeccawb
Allen Wirfs-Brock@awbjs
19 Jun 2020
DIY country cord cutting. Next week we and our 3 neighbors are going to attempt to trench in a half mile of conduit along our private road so we can get fiber installed. Can't wait to say goodbye to ex-Frontier DSL, land lines, and over priced Directv
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Great read.. Kyle reminds me that the subtitle of the GoF book was: Elements of resuable OO design. This shows how central reuse was to the wide adoption of OO. AT OOPLA'90 I organized a panel on creating frameworks titled "Designing reusable designs ".
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At that time there were only a handful of recognizable frameworks in the world. Most were represented on the panel. We tried to figure out what they were and how to design one. Ralph Johnson: What do you call a framework that has only been used once? A buggy framework.
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Allen Wirfs-Brock retweeted
Yifeng "Evan" Wang
@ewind_dev
22 Sep 2020
We’ve released an online Chinese version of JavaScript: The First 20 Years (cn.history.js.org). Thanks the incredible original work from @awbjs and @BrendanEich that makes this possible! #javascript
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Every fall, mice from outside take shelter inside our house. Begrudgingly but successfully we have used kill traps, which require maintaining a certain emotional distance. This year, however, a couple of mice won our hearts by having to get themselves rescued. THREAD follows. 1/
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