Fear and loathing of the "perification" of Smalltalk
Bert Freudenberg
bert at freudenbergs.de
Tue Sep 4 19:00:21 UTC 2007
On Sep 4, 2007, at 11:53 , Peter William Lount wrote:
> Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>>>>>>> "Peter" == Peter William Lount <peter at smalltalk.org> writes:
>>>>>>>
>>
>> Peter> The Perlification of Smalltalk: Curly Braces and the Road
>> to PerlCrypticTalk.
>>
>> I respectfully request that you not use Perl as a swear word in my
>> presence.
>>
>> :)
>>
>>
> Hi,
>
> Well it's not meant as a swear word exactly. It's meant as a
> comparison between the simple Smalltalk syntax and the complex mess
> that is the Perl syntax. I was thinking of apologizing to the Perl
> community for coining the phrase "perlification". Sorry about that
> but it's descriptive beyond belief. Please accept my apology. I
> would have used "APLification" but I didn't think that many would
> get it as well as the Perl version.
You could call it Smalltalk++ ;)
- Bert -
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