Squeak "Simple"
demiourgos at smalltalk.org
demiourgos at smalltalk.org
Mon Feb 21 22:49:04 UTC 2000
On Thu, 17 February 2000, "Ivan Tomek" wrote:
>
> I keep reading statements about the need to simplify Smalltalk and I
> agree that for some reason, some consider Smalltalk difficult to learn.
[snip]
While mastering the class libraries are a challenge, I also think many
users find programming languages with novel expression or statement
evaluation rules challenging. After all, considering FORTRAN, C, Pascal,
Java, Ada, PL/1, etc, they are basically the same programming language,
syntactically, with differences in semantics of datatypes, expressions,
parameter-passing, I/O, and namespace. People react strongly to
LISP, SNOBOL4, APL, FORTH, too. "It looks hard", they say. Well, they're
different.
--jtg
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