On 17/12/2008, at 15:17, Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
[... then]
"Smalltalk is the ancient Egyptian religion. The Initiated know it
already had all the important concepts working long ago and most
popular modern languages are incomplete subsets of it that obsess
over artificial restrictions of their own creation while entirely
missing the reason their code exists in the first place.
And the heart of your code will be judged against the Feather of
Truth before it can join the message passing afterlife."
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This was slashdotted, originated here
- http://www.aegisub.net/2008/12/if-programming-languages-were-
religions.html
Could nor resist mentioning for the squeak-list records ;)
/Klaus
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"If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for
it". Albert Einstein
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Very good , read this old
http://www.scribd.com/doc/320372/How-to-kill-a-Dragon-with-Programming
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