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

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Thu Jul 3 03:02:31 UTC 2008


2008/7/3 Craig Latta <craig at netjam.org>:
>
>> 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.
>

Heh, yes, i'm not native english speaker. :)



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Igor Stasenko AKA sig.



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