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		asimpletune on July 3, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Xerox Smalltalk-80 GUI Was Weird Thanks for sharing your experience with working with Smalltalk. I wonder in a parallel universe, a smalltalk one, what VCS would have been like? Would the "last version that worked" also just have been an object?

igouy on July 3, 2023 | [–]

You've been given a mistaken impression of the Smalltalk-80 development process.

Changes were automatically logged to an external text file and could be recovered.

By the late '80s there was multi-user fine-grained version control: ENVY/Developer

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mastering_ENVY_Develope...

nradov on July 3, 2023 | [–]

Check out the Monticello VCS for Smalltalk.

https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1287

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