Object orientation - can you have too much of a good thing?

Alan Lovejoy squeak-dev.sourcery at forum-mail.net
Sun Oct 28 17:53:33 UTC 2007


tim Rowledge wrote:
>
>
> I did come acros some astonishing rubbish while searching for it 
> though, including what looks like a Ruby hagiography where some dimwit 
> appears to be claiming
> "Why do I have to put the thing even Smalltalk abandoned (leaving
> illusion though) in Ruby? They are ugly too, I think. -- matz
> on Smalltalk often control structure being object is mere illusion in 
> most
> Smalltalk implementation "
What does that comment you found even mean?  It's hard to concretely 
criticize something that makes as much sense as "Colorless green ideas 
sleep furiously" or "Hypotenuses reciprocate against thunderous 
abstractions."

--Alan



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