Strongtalk VM for Squeak

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at angband.za.org
Tue Sep 19 14:54:31 UTC 2006


"Ramon Leon" <ramonleon at cox.net> wrote:

> Types aren't blocking wider adoption, ignorance is.  The wider community
> is generally ignorant of the benefits of Smalltalk, dynamic typing,
> image based development, language aware source control, etc., etc, etc.
>   Smalltalk doesn't need to come to them, they need to come to
> Smalltalk, and they are, slowly but surely, every major language has
> been moving closer and closer to Smalltalk for years.
>
> VM's, refactoring, Object Orientation, IDE's, garbage collection, and
> extreme programming are all now common, a sure sign of the direction of
> the mainstream.  A few more years, and they might catch up to Smalltalk
> 72. ;)

You know, replace "Smalltalk" with "Lisp" and you'll sound just like Paul
Graham :)

http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html

Sample quote:

    If you look at these languages in order, Java, Perl,
    Python, you notice an interesting pattern. At least, you
    notice this pattern if you are a Lisp hacker. Each one is
    progressively more like Lisp. Python copies even
    features that many Lisp hackers consider to be
    mistakes. You could translate simple Lisp programs into
    Python line for line. It's 2002, and programming
    languages have almost caught up with 1958.

frank




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