Point of potential interest.
Blake
blake at kingdomrpg.com
Fri Feb 9 08:38:43 UTC 2007
On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:45:23 -0800, Aaron Reichow <revaaron at bitquabit.com>
wrote:
> That was back in 2000, when I was taking a Java class that was mostly
> about writing GUIs in Swing for my sophomore year of college. I had been
> using Squeak for about a year, having taught myself Smalltalk over the
> previous year. Like most who take an earnest look at Smalltalk, I was
> hooked, and Smalltalk had replaced Python as my favorite language, where
> it's remained since. No small feat for a language enthusiast during a
> time where there are a lot of contenders, some of which that are full
> featured and fun to code in, languages like Io, Factor, Ruby, Python,
> etc.
I've had that problem for 15 years. And I imagine some here have had it
for more than 30. I'm a language junkie myself. It's just weird to watch
these other languages rise and fall after learning Smalltalk.
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