[squeak-dev] Re: Newspeak GSoC?

Michael Haupt mhaupt at gmail.com
Sun Mar 7 12:41:05 UTC 2010


Hi Josh,

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Josh Gargus <josh at schwa.ca> wrote:
> It's a Smalltalk to me, along with Smalltalk-72 and Self.  I've taken it for granted that most here see it that way, but I may be wrong.  Can I get a show of hands of anyone who doesn't think Newspeak is a Smalltalk?

me. The underlying abstractions are fundamentally different, and so is
the way of applying abstraction to problem domains. Smalltalk is
rather far away from late-binding (almost?) everything. Smalltalk
classes / objects are not modules the way the are in Newspeak.

Best,

Michael



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