[squeak-dev] Re: offtopic: Hydra's name (was "The Primitive: I am not a number- I am a named prim! ")

Craig Latta craig at netjam.org
Thu Jul 3 00:50:42 UTC 2008


 > I don't share your point here. A name is quite relevant to computing:
 > if we going to talk with computers then to understand each other we
 > need something in common - a language. Small language, which we can
 > understand both and talk on it :)
 >
 > And that's the most why i like smalltalk - it is small. It is
 > inherently easy to learn and talk on it. Maybe there other language(s)
 > which would make programmer's life as easy as smalltalk does. But i
 > didn't met them yet in my life.

      That's all true, but it also indicates to me that you're not 
familiar with the original meaning of the word "smalltalk" in English. 
:)  It has strongly negative baggage.


-C

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Craig Latta
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Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)]




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