[squeak-dev] Re: offtopic: Hydra's name (was "The Primitive: I am
not a number- I am a named prim! ")
Craig Latta
craig at netjam.org
Thu Jul 3 00:50:42 UTC 2008
> I don't share your point here. A name is quite relevant to computing:
> if we going to talk with computers then to understand each other we
> need something in common - a language. Small language, which we can
> understand both and talk on it :)
>
> And that's the most why i like smalltalk - it is small. It is
> inherently easy to learn and talk on it. Maybe there other language(s)
> which would make programmer's life as easy as smalltalk does. But i
> didn't met them yet in my life.
That's all true, but it also indicates to me that you're not
familiar with the original meaning of the word "smalltalk" in English.
:) It has strongly negative baggage.
-C
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Craig Latta
improvisational musical informaticist
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Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)]
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