begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 11:37:03AM -0700: [snip] > Which is why, more and more, I am viewing the whole computer and all its > tools as one continuous system; and I find pronouncements as to what is > the One True Application Language to be, well, a little shallow and off > point.
Is *that* what you mean? Okay then. I'm coming at the from the other side -- I don't want "One" anything. I want a toolbox. I want lots of toolboxes, some of them incompatible. I want a variety of options, all evolving in their own directions, all inventing their own solutions, all constructing their own world-views. There's a quote by some smalltalker that I can't be bothered to look up right now, but it basically consisted of an observation that operating systems are only needed to handle deficiencies in the programming language. I took the other road -- so while I like the smalltalk syntax, and the object model, and the flexibility... I don't care much for the "we're all you need right here in this box" world-view. And I thought you were treading close to that line. I had failed to understand what you were saying. Thank you for clarifying that point. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
