Peter Becker wrote: > 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. True unless you build production images. > I'm not trying to diss Smalltalk, but there are some > reasons why Java made it into the mainstream and Smalltalk didn't. different conversation.. there are good reasons why Smalltalk didn't make it into the mainstream and Java did. That said, I would argue that the deployment model wasn't one of them nor where there any big questions of usability (there are always a host of normal usability questions no matter what you pick).
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