Is Self a Smalltalk? :)


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Best regards,


Dennis Schetinin


2014-02-12 13:35 GMT+04:00 Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>:

> On 12 February 2014 00:22, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 11-02-2014, at 5:02 PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. <jecel at merlintec.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Any discussion of what is Smalltalk and what isn't can't get very far
> >> without first clearly defining a few things.
> >
> > In the same way that Filk is music performed by people that consider
> themselves to be Filkers, I would suggest that maybe Smalltalk is what is
> written by people that consider themselves to be Smalltalkers.
> >
> > Is everything an object? Do objects have classes? Do objects communicate
> by sending messages and getting back results? Is an image saved and
> restarted? Can you forget about having to deal with memory allocation? If
> the answer is yes to those questions then it's probably a Smalltalk.
>
> Of course, this makes Common Lisp a Smalltalk :) (They certainly have
> a whole bunch of characteristics in common, which given Smalltalk's
> influences should not be a surprise.) (And no, I don't seriously
> consider Common Lisp a Smalltalk, just in case anyone thinks that I
> do.)
>
> > Oh and course the big one - do I like it?
>
> Why, yes I do! (To both!)
>
> frank
>
>
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