Well... functional programming is hard and not everybody really understands it... structured programming is hard and not everybody really understood it... hmm at the end, programming is hard :-)
He gives no reason about his stament nor "demonstration" of it neither... so he has a feeling, me too and a completely different one :-) On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Janko Mivšek <janko.miv...@eranova.si>wrote: > Hi guys, > > Again one interesting topic for this weekend to discuss. David Nolen, a > Lisp and JavaScript guy posted in his blog an article titled Illiterate > Programming [1] where he said: > > "...Yet I think Smalltalk still fundamentally failed (remember this is a > programming language originally designed to scale from children to > adults) because *Objects are really hard* and no-one really understands > to this day how to do them right...." > > He links to Alan Kay post [2] back in 1998 where he talks about problems > with inheritance: > > "Here are a few problems in the naive inheritance systems we use today: > confusions of Taxonomy and Parentage, of Specialization and Refinement, > of Parts and Wholes, of Semantics and Pragmatics..." > > Let we concentrate on broader "Objects are really hard and no-one really > understands to this day how to do them right" claim and not merely > inheritance, please. > > Best regards > Janko > > [1] http://dosync.posterous.com/illiterate-programming > [2] > > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/1998-April/009261.html > > -- > Janko Mivšek > Aida/Web > Smalltalk Web Application Server > http://www.aidaweb.si > > -- *Hernán Wilkinson Agile Software Development, Teaching & Coaching Mobile: +54 - 911 - 4470 - 7207 email: hernan.wilkin...@10pines.com site: http://www.10Pines.com <http://www.10pines.com/>* Address: Paraguay 523, Floor 7 N, Buenos Aires, Argentina _______________________________________________ help-smalltalk mailing list help-smalltalk@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-smalltalk
