Comment by e12e
10 years ago
> highly unconventional user interface that bridges the power of the CLI and the GUI together in this vaguely hypertext-like workspace where you can dynamically live program the UI itself through on-screen text that can serve as an entry point or continuation to perform all sorts of computations, things you'd normally write hacky scripts for. Closest analogue is Xerox's Cedar.
Sounds a lot like Smalltalk's print-it/do-it? I suppose the idea orginated with Oberon?
Wirth worked with Cedar at Xerox and wanted a similar experience at ETHZ.