I'm a great fan of Arthur C. Clarke, but the statement referred to here fell
short of his abilities.  Reduced, it states that anything which meets the
criteria of the statement will indeed meet the criteria of the statement.
In this corollary, any programming language which is indistinguishable from
Smalltalk will be indistinguishable from Smalltalk.  Ya think?  <g>

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Alan Lovejoy
  To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
  Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2005 3:23 PM
  Subject: Any sufficiently advanced...






  "Any sufficiently advanced programming language will be indistinguishable
from Smalltalk."  -- with apologies to Arthur C. Clarke.



  I ran across a quote from Donald Raab just now, and it inspired me to
think of the above variation on Clarke's famous dictum.



  Here's what Raab said:  "Any sufficiently complicated Java or VB program
contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of
half of Smalltalk."





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