Hi,
On 10/01/16 17:16, Dimitris Chloupis wrote:
[...]
I think when people referring to Smalltalk refer to Smalltalk as the
language or OOP itself, but thats only the tip of the iceberg, Pharo
tries to stay true to vision of smalltalk creating the virtual
enviroment where the user can easily create his or her own tools or
modifying the existing ones, something that I feel no other language
out there can emulate because they follow a non monolithic approach
where there is a deep dichotomy between language, libraries and the
environment itself. You could say that Smalltalk is the anti-Unix
architecture , a great example of monolithic design that works great
in practice yet its easy to modify and extend.
[...]
A place where I finally got this clear was in the book Tracing the
Dynabook by John W. Maxwell[1], where its author says that a fair
comparison wouldn't be between Smalltalk and other programming
languages, but between Smalltalk and the operative systems paradigm. I
had found Squeak in 2005 and even reading something about the Dynabook,
but was until reading this text on 2007 when I finally get it. It has a
different approach that the classical programming book, but was one of
the most enlightening reading for me about Smalltalk, the dynabook and
the popular computer paradigm we have today.
[1] http://tkbr.ccsp.sfu.ca/dynabook/
Cheers,
Offray
