"Any sufficiently advanced programming language will be indistinguishable
from Smalltalk."  -- with apologies to Arthur C. Clarke.

 

I ran across a quote from Donald Raab just now, and it inspired me to think
of the above variation on Clarke's famous dictum.

 

Here's what Raab said:  "Any sufficiently complicated Java or VB program
contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of
half of Smalltalk." 

 

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