From: Roel Wuyts Roel.Wuyts@ulb.ac.be Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers listsqueak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org To: The general-purpose Squeak developers listsqueak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Subject: Re: election details *PLEASE READ* Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:03:54 +0100
Broadening this a bit: these three language families (Logic programming, functional programming and (pure) object-oriented programming are all considered 5th generation languages. I often wonder why none of these well-designed, clean languages were never really popular. I actually believe that this is one of the deep, underlying reasons: people that embrace this language and get it are so hooked that they are absorbed and never get out again. This is what Andreas is pointing to.
But don't just assume that because Java is popular and Squeak isn't as much, that Java is right and Smalltalk is wrong. Maybe we really *do* have the best system and it just hasn't been adopted.
They say the worse something is, the more it will be advertised, and in my experience this has been true.
_________________________________________________________________ The average US Credit Score is 675. The cost to see yours: $0 by Experian. http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=660600&bcd=EMAILFOOTE...