Aaron Reichow wrote:

> All this discussion of Metaclasses and 'aught' become: nil has turned on
> again the odd philosophical feelings Smalltalk brings to my brain.  Does
> anyone else share this?  Let me elaborate...
>
> The Smalltalk system seems to share some cosmological, religio-
> philosophical with the rest of the universe.  For example the root of all
> Classes (things) is Object (ether).  To make matters even more
> interesting, Object's superclass is ProtoObject (most basic form of the ether),
> and the superclass of that?  nil.  Nothing.  Nothingness.  Metaclasses,
> those which define the meaning of meaning, are the parents of their own
> children's parents.  Man.  This stuff blows my mind.  It really is beautiful.
>
> Yes, this is pretty off the wall, but it's always there when I'm coding in
> Smalltalk, something that has never visited me when programming
> in other languages.
>
> Any other thoughts?
> Aaron

I suppose you could say the 'hidden variables' of this universe are the
primitives :>

Michael.