<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Craig Latta <<a href="mailto:craig@netjam.org">craig@netjam.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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> I don't share your point here. A name is quite relevant to computing:<br>
> if we going to talk with computers then to understand each other we<br>
> need something in common - a language. Small language, which we can<br>
> understand both and talk on it :)<br>
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> And that's the most why i like smalltalk - it is small. It is<br>
> inherently easy to learn and talk on it. Maybe there other language(s)<br>
> which would make programmer's life as easy as smalltalk does. But i<br>
> didn't met them yet in my life.<br>
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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.<br>
</blockquote><div><br><br>It does? First time I heard; I always thought it was an important social skill: <a href="http://howto.lifehack.org/wiki/Small_Talk">http://howto.lifehack.org/wiki/Small_Talk</a><br><br>Gulik. <br>
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