Self: The Power of Simplicity

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The best link for this paper is the version in the list of published papers (http://selflanguage.org/documentation/published/index.html) in the documentation section of the Self website (http://selflanguage.org) (where, incidentally, you can download a version of your own for Linux or Mac)

Hey, thanks for the pointing out. Very nice bib there.

Keep on the good efforts man, I think the immensity of JS will eventually spill out some deserved attention to Self.

Please edit your entry to include an additional "[pdf]" type designator since the link is directly to a PDF document and not to a web page nor a Scribd embed.

I would like to add:

Thank you for posting the PDF instead of some lame Scribd version. I still don't really get any reason for Scribd to even exist.

Yeah I realize they're YC, and I realize the Scribd guys probably lurk (or post) here, but can someone please explain the raison d'etre for the whole thing?

I wouldn't be surprised if some Windows users prefer Scribd over the bloated Acrobat Reader. Scribd is pretty useless on the Mac, though.

Honestly the Scribd whining on HN is really old. Auto-Scribd-ization has been in HN for a long time, people have been complaining about it the whole time, and pg probably isn't going to change it.

Self is fun but the X-Windows powered GUI is dated and hard to use. I'd love a modern version.

We're working on it. Want to help?

(Oh, and on MacOS X the GUI is Quartz not X btw)

Holy awesome, I'd never seen the Quartz version. It works great! I love that my mouse works the way I expect it to :)

I may just start playing with it again. Thanks for responding.

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