Thoughts from an outsider
Michael Rueger
m.rueger at acm.org
Wed Aug 30 09:29:43 UTC 2006
J J wrote:
> Java is surely "inconsistancy all the way down".
ROFL
> I'm sure the Howard Aiken quote is familiar to all smalltalkers: "Don't
> worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good,
> you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
Yup, and we Smalltalkers usually are way to polite to do this ;-)
> What smalltalk also needs is a killer app. Maybe seaside will be that
> killer app if the inferier language crowd doesn't steal it first.
Seaside is certainly the killer app in the website application area
demonstrating a viable alternative to scripting.
Another one could be Sophie (OK, I'm one of the developers ;-) ).
> I hope someone somewhere finds something I said useful. :)
Thank you, thank you, thank you :-)
Michael
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