> It is important to note that today’s CR-delimited text file systems are blunt instruments compared to the fine-grained directed graphs with fidelity down to class/method history of each of those. It was more like a multidimensional database with cross-cutting tags representing HEAD, or someone else’s important combination of those three. It was omnipresent too - a decision made to move HEAD was instantly available without ‘update’ action to teammates

These stories about Smalltalk and Lisp (machines) sometimes read as if they came from a forgotten, ancient civilization that was way more advanced than ours.

When does the renaissance come?