On 28-Aug-07, at 2:41 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
But also, newcomers to Smalltalk need to understand that to Smalltalkers, the *language* part is actually not all that important. This is very different from other communities like the ones you list, which are in fact centered around their language. For us Smalltalkers it is the environment that counts most, not the syntax.
Well yes, but.
The environment is only possible because we have a rather good semantic model serviced via a good, clean, regular, intelligible syntax. And some smart people using it, of course.
tim -- tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim Useful random insult:- Hypnotized as a child and couldn't be woken.