[Newbies] [OT] If programming languages were religions...

[Edgar J. De Cleene]

On 17/12/2008, at 15:17, Klaus D. Witzel wrote:

> [... then]
> "Smalltalk is the ancient Egyptian religion. The Initiated know it  
> already had all the important concepts working long ago and most  
> popular modern languages are incomplete subsets of it that obsess  
> over artificial restrictions of their own creation while entirely  
> missing the reason their code exists in the first place.
>
> And the heart of your code will be judged against the Feather of  
> Truth before it can join the message passing afterlife."
>
> -----------
>
> This was slashdotted, originated here
>
> - http://www.aegisub.net/2008/12/if-programming-languages-were- 
> religions.html
>
> Could nor resist mentioning for the squeak-list records ;)
>
> /Klaus
>
> -- 
> "If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for  
> it". Albert Einstein
>
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Very good , read this old

http://www.scribd.com/doc/320372/How-to-kill-a-Dragon-with-Programming