Dugan piece...
Christopher Oliver
oliver at fritz.co.traverse.com
Fri Feb 20 01:58:20 UTC 1998
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?
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