Smalltalk keyword message syntax seems to be in a middle ground

Culturally they're not really the same organization. JPL has a different culture than Goddard, which is different than Marshall, etc.

I'm still of the opinion that the right direction is something architectEd more like NeWS with better underlying language support. If you're going to break stuff make it a real improvement.

We basically have it, it's called Blink (and it's a dumpster fire for unrelated reasons).

Did they get the sulfurous compounds out as well?

Did they do anything to fix the OpenSmalltalk VM lamentable keyboard input?

Have you looked at the tooling in Genera or other lisp machines?

In case you want to know more about them, they're called "Miller columns"

There was a browser that worked on Squeak 3, Whisker, that had some of these attributes. I used it up until it became unsupported. It took a little getting used to as its primary orientation was horizontal, but in the age of widescreen monitors that is an advantage.

Wiki description: https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1993

Archive of its homepage. Has an image of the browser in use. https://web.archive.org/web/20070228113449/http://www.mindsp...

Yes, Whisker is exactly what came to mind for me as well.

I don't currently use Smalltalk, most of my code is now written (and read) in vscode. The means available for showing the context around the code under consideration (splitting and resizing panes, hunting through lists of tabs, scrolling around) feel pretty crude by comparison.

Every so often I fire up an old Squeak Smalltalk image, put it in full screen mode, and pretend that much of the intervening years never happened.

But Squeak is 1996 ;)

Close enough. I had a copy of MacOS Apple Smalltalk from the 1985 training course I took, and had started a job using Objectworks. Squeak 1.0 is quite close to ST-80.