On 2012-05-13, at 21:13, Walt Mankowski wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 09:07:56PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: >> On 2012-05-13, at 20:55, Walt Mankowski wrote: >>> * We'll add classes later. >>> * C
>> Classes were still a kind of experimental idea in 1970, and it >> wasn't at all clear they'd ever be able to be implemented >> efficiently in something like C. > Yeah, I probably should have put a smiley after C. I was thinking > about the schism into C++ and ObjC, but we can't really blame Ritchie > for that. Pity about CO2 (C O squared / C Object Oriented) Stupid language designer tricks #2^n-1 * Keep it proprietary * Smalltalk * CO2