alt Hacker NewsThat would be a bad idea. In Smalltalk the "image" was the main thing and I think that was one thing that led to the commercail demise of Smalltalk. You can not combine two (or more) images. You can not build new things by using "images" as components. Instead as we know source-code modules with well-defined interfaces between them is what keeps productivity hhigh. At least before AI.
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goatlover • yesterday at 5:41 AM
Images can be saved out as files, so I don't see why not. Also, I recall it was the expensive commercial licensing along with the rise of cheap PCs as competition to Lisp and ST machines. That and Java being free with a focus on networking and the web was the final nail in squashing Lisp or ST popularity.
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> You can not combine two (or more) images.
Depends what you mean. Details matter.
> You can not build new things by using "images" as components.
Depends what you mean. Details matter.