On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:23:45 +0100, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Kevin Wright
<[email protected]>wrote:
I'd say smalltalk (a 70's language) had it right, make *everything* an
object.
Define "right". I used a lot of Smalltalk during my PhD in the early 90's
and while the environment was revolutionary on many fronts, it was also
very, very slow (both the IDE and the programs it created). I'd argue
that
one of the many reasons for this was because everything was an object.
In fact SmallTalk, from the industrial point of view, is a failure.
Fortunately Java has got non-object primitives and it allows to do number
crunching. All this discussion originates from a typical programmer's
error blaming the language, and for controlling that error we've got
plenty of tools, as if it was the only error that programmers do in Java.
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