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@tarix29 @eniko
I'm more and more convinced that GenAI really is a cognitohazard.

@zzt
When they start bringing up lisp machines we'll know the apocalypse is nigh.

@zzt
Oh right, because debian is linux.
/sigh

@zzt
What the actual fuck?

@cwebber
They definitely made Wisdom their dump stat.

@aeva
"All of them."

@cwebber
But why JSON instead of XML?

@cwebber
Here's an example from Smalltalk-76 with the characters converted to unicode.

printon: strm | t [
strm append: [self≡nil⇒ ['nil']; ≡false⇒ ['false']; ≡true⇒ ['true']
t ← self class title.
strm append: ['AEIO' has: t∙1⇒ ['an '] 'a '].
t]]

Edit: Sorry if it wraps badly.
Edit2: Switch to quote since Smalltalks have always used proportional fonts
Edit3: ≡ ⇒ ← ∙ are the custom chars they used in this sample.

@cwebber
I was recently digging around the early Smalltalk systems and they did this too.

@nina_kali_nina
It was worth a shot

@nina_kali_nina
Hmm, I wonder if Fiwix has 9P support. It would make working in a VM easier (QEMU supports 9P for shared folders)

@xirin2u

@Kroc
Makes me want to get my own tiny Smalltalk system designed for such setups.

But yes, they're usually cool looking

@eniko
Ugh, that's awful.
I normally love engine reimplementations but this saddens me.

@cstross
I dunno but it sounds amazing so far

@TheMightyGit @alice
Reminds me of someone who had the last name "Null" and had similar problems.

@amoroso
Curious that they used digits of 0-99 instead of 0-255. Simplicity perhaps?

@eniko
Depends on how my executive function is working.
Or not working.

@cwebber
I've bought most every Nintendo console since the N64 but I am strenuously resisting the Switch 2.
I've had enough of them.

@foone
Ooh, they have the text adventure ones