How about Smalltalk-2000?
Stefan Matthias Aust
sma at 3plus4.de
Sat Feb 19 12:54:38 UTC 2000
My rant [I'm so sorry I can't resist]: Reading all the rants of long-term
Smalltalkers who fear about the pureness or simplicity of "their" language
is kind of funny. Smalltalk shall be a progressive language IMHO and
staying with the old looks like a contradiction to me. IMHO the "newbie"
is a very valuable source of information which is unbiased compared to
"experts".
Furthermore (as a pragmatic programmer) I always become very suspicious
when I hear "best" or "perfect". This then sounds like a challenge :-)
I'd like to close my mouth with the question whether the persistence in the
existing language isn't perhaps based on the same feeling other language's
programmers have when they detect Smalltalk: I don't want to through away
my knowledge and learn something different?
bye
[PS if somebody feels offended its probably because English isn't my native
language. I'll then explain this more polite in German to you :-]
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Stefan Matthias Aust // ...dancing on the Darkside of the Moon
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