Actually, I found it fascinating.

Filled out alot of missing pieces about how OO came to mix into the
mainstream.

On Thu, 19 Feb 1998 20:58:20 -0500 (EST), Christopher Oliver wrote:

>  I was glancing over the Wiki quotes and anecdotes and wonder
>if anyone's actually gotten through the Dugan piece while re-
>maining awake?  I've quite enjoyed reading Smalltalk-80 books
>(Taste Of, purple, and red) as I come up to speed, and even Liu
>though it is lighter reading than I had hoped.  After trying to
>wade through the "Social and Political History" on two occasions,
>I found it quite the most ponderous piece I've read in years.
>Compare this stylistically with say Gabriel and Steele's "The
>Evolution of Lisp" or even Ritchey's "The Development of the C
>Language."  Do folk imagine it encourages or repel potential
>Smalltalkers?
>
>Thoughts?  Objections?
>
>-- 
>Christopher Oliver                     Traverse Communications
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>   (define magic (lambda (f) (lambda (x) x)))
>   (define (more-magic n) (lambda (f) (lambda (x) (f ((n f) x)))))
>

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