How about Smalltalk-2000?

Warren Postma wpostma at ztr.com
Wed Feb 16 20:37:25 UTC 2000


<to be taken with a grain of salt>


>Who needs 'operators'. Stick to sending messages; Smalltalk has two
>operators, assign and return (have I missed any?) and that is quite enough.

What about 

5+2 

What the heck is that? A fixed non-object oriented use of an algebraic
idiom, supported non-extensibly by hardcoded stuff in the VM and parser.

Take it out if you want your language pure.

You should use this instead:

5 plus: 2

There, much better.

No, I have a better idea. Mix messages and objects and use Reverse Polish
Notation only, for everything. It would be easier to parse and generate the
bytecode for your VM.  

Bah humbug!

Warren





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