[graybeards] Simple Simula Example?

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Wed Oct 10 12:26:42 UTC 2001


Tim is the "coyote" of the Squeak world!

Cheers,

Alan

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At 10:34 AM +0100 10/10/01, goran.hultgren at bluefish.se wrote:
>Hi Sergio and Tim!
>
>Sergio - Tim was joking! He can be a real jester sometimes! Is that the
>correct word Tim? :-)
>
>regards, G–ran
>
>Sergio Ruocco <sergio.ruocco at mlab.disco.unimib.it> wrote:
>>  Tim Rowledge wrote:
>>   > Sergio Ruocco <sergio.ruocco at mlab.disco.unimib.it> is widely believed to
>>  have written:
>>  [...]
>>   >>In other words, thay are complex numbers that can be stacked.
>>   >>
>>   > What? You mean that you have to do special work to be able to push
>>   > objects? Ludicrous! How could anybody live such a dumb restricion. Why,
>>   > that would be as dumb as integers and floats not being proper objects!
>>   >
>>   > tim
>>
>>  Please, don't flame me, but the authors: as I said, I pedantially copied the
>>  example from the book, explanations included !
>>
>>  I preferred to report it "as it is", without no "improvements", because I am
>>  not fluent in Simula syntax, I don't have a Simula system to check it before
>>  sending it out etc.
>>
>>	Sergio
>>
>>  --
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