Owen Densmore wrote: > Hmm..this leads me to ask the question: > Who of us currently uses Smalltalk/Squeak? > If so, which implementation? > > I'd be interested in your experiences. We often talk about rapid > prototyping, but we seldom actually do it. But my friends at PARC in > the early days, and a couple of hold-outs at SunLabs could perform > magic very, very quickly. > > I like this quote from the Squeak web site: > > You may be familiar with other open source languages like Ruby or > Python, but Squeak takes these concepts much, much further offering a > true uniform fully reflective environment - real live objects. > > "The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer > revolution hasn't started yet. Don't be misled by the enormous > flow of money into bad defacto standards for unsophisticated buyers > using poor adaptations of incomplete ideas." > - Alan Kay >
Alright, I give up - why do fun languages like Python or more fun languages like Squeak get passed over in the market compared to rather annoying languages like Java? How come they haven't been as competitive as say Linux as a server OS platform? Why is C++ vs. Java still our fate in 2006? Is there no God? Have we been bad? ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
