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<div>>>>>> "Dino" == Dino
<gte949e@prism.gatech.edu> writes:<br>
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<div>Dino> I'm also kinda<br>
Dino> suprised that Mr. Randal L. Schwartz (Perl Buff) reads this
mailing<br>
Dino> list. Bjarne Stroustrup, you there?<br>
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<div>Randal> Well, I've been around smalltalk since 1982 when I
spent a few days<br>
Randal> killing time (between projects) on a Tektronix Magnolia,
the first<br>
Randal> hardware (68k based, internal project only) to run the ST80
image<br>
Randal> outside of PARC. <br>
[delete]<br>
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<div>There are some interesting parallels between Perl and Smalltalk.
In both communities, there is something like a class library which can
be leveraged. Development in both languages is iterative.
The Perl community does a better job of sharing and reusing code,
IMO. Perl also benefitted from the explosion of the Web in the
same way Java did. (Smalltalk missed the boat there,
unfortunately.) <br>
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<div>What about running Perl on top of the Squeak VM, and providing
some things that are missing in Perl? (Like Regular Expressions
as first class objects) <br>
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<div>Peter Kwangjun Suk<br>
Cincom Systems, Inc.<br>
psuk@cincom.com suk@pobox.com <a
href="http://w3.one.net/~pksuk/ObjectStudio"
>http://w3.one.net/~pksuk/ObjectStudio</a></div>
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