kirk wrote: > Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > >> This 'you don't mother other developers' bullpucky needs to stop, now. >> >> > I'm sorry but historically this was a justification for making the class > final. I agree, it's a bogus argument. Having mutable Strings in > Smalltalk didn't make String un-usable just as having mutable Strings in > other langauges didn't make them un-usable either. > Smalltalk is unusable unless you are happy to move images of your dev environment around. I'm not trying to diss Smalltalk, but there are some reasons why Java made it into the mainstream and Smalltalk didn't. But Smalltalk certainly has a cleaner object model than Java, which helps.
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