[squeak-dev] Re: offtopic: Hydra's name (was "The Primitive: I am not a number- I am a named prim! ")

Michael van der Gulik mikevdg at gmail.com
Thu Jul 3 01:14:01 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Craig Latta <craig at netjam.org> wrote:

>
> > 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.
>


It does? First time I heard; I always thought it was an important social
skill: http://howto.lifehack.org/wiki/Small_Talk

Gulik.



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