Yoshiki Ohshima <Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org> wrote:
>   The magazine is called "Lightweight Language Magazine" and the
> magazine is about Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and etc.  A section is
> devoted to "other" languages like Haskell, Emacs Lisp, and Squeak.  As
> you could imagine, the target audience is "language nerds" type.
> 
>   I still don't know if Squeak qualifies as a "Lightweight Language,"
> whatever the definition is, but more visibility is better.

Don't you know?  Lightweight means "good" nowadays.  People sprinkle it
around everywhere.  Frequently it means "doesn't have much code to it"
(and thus, that it probably consumes heavy CPU and memory), but really,
it can be applied to anything.

Be glad.  It used to be that "object-oriented" meant good.  For example,
"this is an object-oriented operating system", or "this is an
object-oriented desktop interface", or "this is an object-oriented
toaster".

Unfortunately, an occasional holdout from the old days will occasionally
pop up and say "this is a lightweight object-oriented mail reader".

:)

Every field seems to have these things.  And it could be worse --
education folks have to contend with "child-centered" educational
techniques.  Blah!

-Lex