[squeak-dev] 40 years ago, in a galaxy not far away ...

karl ramberg karlramberg at gmail.com
Tue Oct 2 17:26:30 UTC 2012


On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima <Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 10:09 AM, karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think JavaScript was designed in a week as well
>
> I think the biggest difference is the "and over the next ten years he
> made at least 80 major releases of various flavors of Smalltalk."
> part.  JavaScript was out into the market and did not have the luxury
> of experimenting fundamental evolutions.  For some, Smalltalk lost the
> "interestingness" along the years to be more adaptable for real
> programmers.
>
> --
> -- Yoshiki
>
True

Karl


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