Smalltalk is a tidier functional language than Scheme
Christopher Oliver
oliver at fritz.traverse.com
Wed Sep 2 04:58:29 UTC 1998
> I wish we lived in a world where comparing Smalltalk and Scheme was a
> major issue. Unfortunately, on any spectrum that includes C++/java,
> Scheme and Smalltalk are unresolvable close together.
Lost in the underflow. [Sigh!]
How is it the most interesting programming technology seems to get
marginalized? To a degree, I an understand the choices when hard-
ware is insufficient, but now that hardware runs good HLLs quickly,
why does everyone insist on poorly packaged replicas of the real
thing? [Scratches head!]
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oliver at traverse.net Traverse City, Michigan, 49684
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