Where's the new Smalltalk?

Randal L. Schwartz merlyn at stonehenge.com
Tue Sep 19 23:39:12 UTC 2006


>>>>> "Ramon" == Ramon Leon <ramon.leon at allresnet.com> writes:

Ramon> I think Ruby, as well as being interesting, has kicked Smalltalk in the ass,
Ramon> forcing it to start changing, is Traits not a direct response to ruby's
Ramon> mixins?  Ruby seems an interesting mix between Smalltalk and Lisp,
Ramon> definitely something to keep an eye on.

And don't forget Perl6, moving along rather quickly now, which is taking the
best of Ruby, and adding prototype-based inheritance into the VM, which will
make hosting and interoperating with Javascript or Smalltalk rather
straightforward.

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