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Xerox PARC was so far ahead of their time in 1980 it’s beyond belief. Among their greatest products was Smalltalk; not merely a language, Smalltalk-80 was essentially the entire operating system.
Sadly, it was just too different from what people expected computers to be like for it to achieve what it could have. But ideas from the 1980 version are still appearing in new languages today.
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