# Smalltalk

Originally published: 2015-05-11
Canonical URL: /2015/May/smalltalk/

_(8:5x_ a.m._, an office on the someteenth floor of the twenty-somethingth tallest building in San Francisco)_

"Good morning!"

"'Morning."

"How was your weekend? Did you do anything exciting? Maybe you went to a movie, or to the beach—"

"No—"

"Or embarked on some heroic endeavor of engineering, the likes of which threaten to upend our understanding of the nature of computation itself?"

"No, nothing like that," _(sighing, resignedly)_ "how was your weekend?"

_(pretending to inspect his or her fingernails)_ "_My_ weekend? Oh, nothing special—hung out, did some grocery shopping—"

"Uh huh."

"—[wrote a compiler](https://github.com/zackmdavis/Glitteral/tree/d9187567#actual-demonstration)—"