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mkltoday at 8:49 AM0 repliesview on HN

For me, that was my "I'm getting out of here before I break it irreversibly" moment while working through some introductory tutorial ~20 years ago; I've never touched Smalltalk again. I can't understand why being bespoke and unreproducible would be a desirable thing for software.

(Yes, clearly I don't "get it". Happy to hear explanations.)