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 -- Doug Roberts, RTI International [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell 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 > > 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) > > http://www.jtjohnson.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. > > To change something, build a new model that makes the > > existing model obsolete." > > -- Buckminster Fuller > > ========================================== > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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