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stephane ducasse stephane.ducasse at free.fr
Fri Feb 23 21:03:38 UTC 2007


On 21 févr. 07, at 09:24, Todd Blanchard wrote:

>
> On Feb 20, 2007, at 11:57 PM, Alan Lovejoy wrote:
>
>> Your comment made me think of the difference in attitude between  
>> French
>> speakers and English Speakers.
>
> I don't find this analogy particularly compelling.  I don't think  
> people are really trying to keep Smalltalk 'pure'.  I think they're  
> trying to find ways to improve it.  Lots of things have been tried  
> - multiple inheritance, prototype based vs class based models,  
> access control wrappers, etc...  The cool thing is you can make it  
> what you want already.  The trick is getting your nifty thing  
> adopted into the standard package.
>
>> Other programming languages have been stealing from Smalltalk for  
>> decades.
>> It's time we returned the favor.
>
> I'm in favor of that - but honestly, there hasn't been a lot worth  
> stealing from the mainstream.
>
> I have been looking at erlang recently and find some of the  
> parallel/process/queue constructs interesting and would love to try  
> to bring some of that over and try building a high performance web  
> server based on those patterns.
>
> And then, of course, there are interesting technologies that have  
> nothing to do with the language but would make a great addition to  
> the platform.  Like Supple http://www.cs.washington.edu/ai/supple/  
> - a really nifty demo I saw last year.

Sounds really interesting for small devices. Thanks for the pointer.

>
> So there is lots of great stuff to steal - but not much of it from  
> the mainstream languages - they mostly seem to ape the last  
> generation and then take a little lunge in the direction of Smalltalk.
>
> -Todd Blanchard
>
>




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