Complexity and starting over on the JVM

Sean Heber sean at fifthace.com
Tue Feb 5 00:52:45 UTC 2008


> Paul> Squeak also deviates from other Smalltalks sometimes for no good
> Paul> reason. A dozen years later you still can't use underscore as  
> easily as
> Paul> in most other Smalltalks because underscore is still  
> overloaded as the
> Paul> assignment symbol. [...]  What does this weird use of  
> underscore really
> Paul> get anyone?
>
> Ahh, you kids, forgetting your roots.  We greybeards understand  
> that "_" is
> actually the left arrow in the original fonts for the Xerox Parc  
> Smalltalk80
> Release 2 image, from which Squeak is derived (via Apple and Disney  
> and a cast
> of thousands).  That it now looks like "_" is merely an artifact of  
> applying a
> modern meaning for slot 95 in the ASCII table.

If it wasn't for kids, nothing would change.  :-P

l8r
Sean




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