The 44 Year Old Computer Magazine That Changed Everything [video] (opens in new tab)

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20 pointsxkriva1110mo ago14 comments

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This Byte volume can be found here: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08/mode/2up

Byte was a magazine I always looked forward to receiving as it had a great connection via the writers to what was happening in the computer and software world.

dosinga10mo ago

I remember biking to the library to read it every time it came out

jaybrendansmith10mo ago

Ha! Same.

mikewarot10mo ago

It's a real shame that Object Oriented programming got perverted into a boatload of boilerplate, as evidenced in C++, Java, etc.

I was all on board with it in Borland Pascal for Windows, and Delphi, but when I looked at C++, I got off that train. You can always take a good idea, and go too far with it... I never did understand the whole Factories for classes thing.

commandersaki10mo ago

I tried to watch the first bit of the video, but I'm still trying to figure what exactly did it change?

timonoko10mo ago

There was no internet, so unless you were connected to educational organization and their curriculum, there was no way to get information of various topics in somewhat palatable way. BYTE changed all that, and suddenly everybody could learn all about Prolog and Smalltalk and other Scheiße.

commandersaki10mo ago

Ah okay, yeah fair enough. I thought the guy was talking about the specific magazine issue of Smalltalk.

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igouy10mo ago

"Scheiße"

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xkriva11OP10mo ago

This Byte volume can be found here: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08/mode/2up

TruffleLabs10mo ago

Byte was a magazine I always looked forward to receiving as it had a great connection via the writers to what was happening in the computer and software world.

dosinga10mo ago

I remember biking to the library to read it every time it came out

jaybrendansmith10mo ago

Ha! Same.

mikewarot10mo ago

It's a real shame that Object Oriented programming got perverted into a boatload of boilerplate, as evidenced in C++, Java, etc.

commandersaki10mo ago

I tried to watch the first bit of the video, but I'm still trying to figure what exactly did it change?

timonoko10mo ago

commandersaki10mo ago

Ah okay, yeah fair enough. I thought the guy was talking about the specific magazine issue of Smalltalk.

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igouy10mo ago

"Scheiße"

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