Hi

This is fun to see all the nostalgic about smalltalk doing nothing
for it. This is like remembering of yes colleg was a nice time in my 
life.

I appreciate SqC people (and all the other that make stuff happening)
because they make Smalltalk moving.....

Stef


On dimanche, novembre 24, 2002, at 05:37  pm, Ned Konz wrote:

> On Sunday 24 November 2002 06:44 am, Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
>> SD: Is there a language that you turn to time and again?
>>
>> Grady Booch: [...] My absolute favorite language is Smalltalk. I
>> wish it had survived.
>
> Spoken by someone whose company has dropped support for Smalltalk in
> their flagship UML editor product (Rational Rose). The Smalltalk
> support they'd had in prior versions was done by The Object People
> (as I recall).
>
> My impression of Rational overall (after talking with Grady and with
> Jim Rumbaugh at OOPSLA '97) is that they're coming from a C++
> background, and have to sell to the Java people as well. They also
> support VB and Ada. Smalltalk just doesn't register.
>
> Rumbaugh, for instance, had never heard of the concept of "class
> extensions". And, of course, UML gives no way to represent them. The
> UML package contains classes only (no loose methods).
>
> -- 
> Ned Konz
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>
>
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