Microsoft shopping for Java alternative

L. M. Rappaport rapp at lmr.com
Sun Feb 14 16:20:20 UTC 1999


I tend to agree, but would prefer a slightly different approach.

It seems like 90% of the work in an application is done by 10% or less
of the classes available.  

I envision a Smalltalk where you could select a "user level".  For
beginners, it would show you some bare minimum of standard classes -
for example, the collection hierarchy might contain OrderedCollection,
SortedCollection, Array, and Set.  As the user became more familiar
with the library, he would raise his "user level" and more classes
would be exposed.  

This would be fairly easy to implement.

Larry
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