Moin Mike Anderson, > Stewart Stremler wrote: > > Looks like a homework assignment was given out. > The worst thing is that the evangelical streak in me wants to answer, at > length. :-)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is smalltalk primarily a functional language, an imperative language, or a > > logic-programming language? > You can eliminate two of the options quite easily. /me is cheating by using google ... http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/search?q=smalltalk+functional+language " Smalltalk is a tidier functional language than Scheme " http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/1998-September/004676.html and even more interesting .... http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/search?q=smalltalk+imperative+language google: smalltalk imperative language http://www.cebollita.org/dugan/history.html and its of course suited for logic programming http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/search?q=smalltalk+logic-programming+language SOUL http://prog.vub.ac.be/research/DMP/soul/soul2.html google can eliminate all 3 options, i think. > The answer to this is practically the first sentence of any Smalltalk > introduction, and is one of the best things about Smalltalk. > This is maybe the hardest to answer, but I think you could guess quite > easily if you look at how variables and parameters are declared in the > source code. This is also one of the best things about Smalltalk. /me has also an evangelical streak sometimes. Smalltalk is Smalltalk ... other languages who came later just took a feature out of context and hyped it. Do you agree, that most modern languages become more and more similar to Smalltalk every year ? Do you agree that now is the time, where everybody can afford a Smalltalk machine, unlike in the late 60s, where mainframes had a maximum of 16MB core and thousands of users running CICS in logical partitions. I think the best thing about Smalltalk is that it was 30 years ahead of time. So lets smile and help those students in their class room assignment ... but I hope they not only copy and paste, but also try to understand it. Bye Michael -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] UNA:+.? 'CED+2+:::Linux:2.6.12'UNZ+1' http://www.xml-edifact.org/ CETERUM CENSEO WINDOWS ESSE DELENDAM _______________________________________________ help-smalltalk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-smalltalk
