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You know what else was written in BASIC? The original Smalltalk interpreter https://youtu.be/pACoq7r6KVI?t=1189 . ("I'm not ashamed, I got it going quickly" - Dan Ingalls.) Obviously this was just a scratch implementation of what became Smalltalk-72, rather than a Smalltalk-80.


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