A Lisper asks, "Am I supposed to like Smalltalk?"

Ramon Leon rleon at insario.com
Wed May 17 20:26:25 UTC 2006


> I think our attitude is wrong, even if we're "right."  We 
> absolutely should enable more "traditional" approaches for 
> doing Smalltalk programming.  If the Mountain won't come to 
> Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the Mountain.
> 
> --Alan

But to try and use traditional approaches would be saying Smalltalk is
just another syntax, and it's so much more than that.  People should
want to come to Smalltalk, because we're so far ahead of the pack that
they can't keep up otherwise, then they'll want to learn the Smalltalk
way.



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