Brent Vukmer wrote:

>>>Just FYI:
> 
> Heh.  I was reminded of Lisp, too.  I was also reminded of this classic:
> http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/VisualWorks/How+to+get+rid+of+Objects+in+Smallta
> lk

This is very nice - thank you. And very illustrative as well. Especially 
Vassily Bykows first contribution really helps to understand an other
wise an issue which looks complex at the surface.

> 
>>And it reminds me of the quotation that every reasonaly 
>>complex system includes a more or less well written Lisp 
>>interpreter in the end.
> 
> 
> "Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C
> or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden
> slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."
> 
> - Phil Greenspun
> 
Well, if the original citation goes like that it is a bit unfair to
Smalltalk to come up with this quotation.

The Lisp nature of Smalltalk is well implemented, but it is somewhat 
hidden syntactically and not often used in our programming.

Hannes