Hi,
At the latest ESUG conference held in Amsterdam, I got Andrés' Book "A Mentoring Course on Smalltalk". It's fun to read. An example is the following quotation that I want to share with you.
"Or let's say you would like to have lunch with a friend. In an assembler or obfuscated C world, you would reach inside your friend's mind and manipulate values and pointers until you made lunch appear attractive. You might even tickle the stomach to get the appetite going. But Smalltalk imposes much more civilized manners. In the same way that your friend is not a struct{...}, objects are not allowed to arbitrarily cross distinctions and mess with internal details. Instead, objects must communicate by means of messages."
Thanks Andrés! Noury Bouraqadi ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Noury Bouraqadi - Enseignant/Chercheur Responsable de l'enseignement de l'informatique ARMINES - Ecole des Mines de Douai - Dept. I.A. http://vst.ensm-douai.fr/noury
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