Thanks Ned

We should stay humble and make sure the traits integration in Squeak 
will be great and make
squeak the coolest OOP languages (which it should be :)).

Stef


On 11 mars 05, at 1:19, Ned Konz wrote:

> The DDJ Excellence in Programming award this year was awarded to Guy 
> Steele.
>
> In the interview with him (DDJ April 2005, page 20), I read:
> ----
> ... There's a difference between a new programming language and some 
> advance
> that creates a major paradigm shift. Fortress [their new language] has 
> a new
> object-oriented type structure, multiple inheritance, and the traits 
> idea [S.
> Ducasse, N. Schaerli, O. Nierstrasz, R. Wuyts, and A. Black, "Traits: A
> Mechanism for Fine-Grained Reuse" ...] Traits are a way of getting 
> better
> code reuse in object-oriented programming. Imagine Java interfaces but 
> you
> can put code in them: not field declarations, just code.
> ----
>
> Congratulations to the Traits team for getting such good press, and 
> such an
> influential booster!
>
> -- 
> Ned Konz
> http://bike-nomad.com/squeak/
>