As one who lived inside a LISP machine for years, and worked extensively
building large OO-based applications using Loops, Flavors, CLOS, and KEE
prior to the birth of C++, I pride myself on being a member of that elite
2%.

I just wish I could get my fellow SW developers to agree with me.

;-}

--Doug

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On 8/5/07, Prof David West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> In my book - Object Thinking - I referenced a lot of material from this
> series of books re: Simula, Smalltalk, and C++ (Java was still absent
> from the books) to make the point that a lot of so-called object
> languages were never intended to be such and that the only reason they
> made the claim was for marketing purposes.  And because programmers
> failed to see why the history, purpose, and philosophy of a language was
> relevant to using the language, 98% of the programmers still have no
> clue how to to OO.
>
> davew
>
>
> On Sat, 4 Aug 2007 18:53:18 -0600, "Tom Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> > >From time to time, some of us have expressed an interest in the
> evolution of
> > various computer languages.  Turns our others shared our interest and
> did
> > something about it.
> >
> > http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/languageposter_0504.html ---
> > The
> > History of Programming Languages
> >
> > -- tj
> >
> > ==========================================
> > J. T. Johnson
> > Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
> > www.analyticjournalism.com
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> >
> > "You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
> > To change something, build a new model that makes the
> > existing model obsolete."
> >                                                    -- Buckminster Fuller
> > ==========================================
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