Phlip wrote: > On Dec 31 2009, 2:06 pm, Steve Howell <showel...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Python is a truly awesome programming language. Not only is Guido a >> genius language designer, but he is also a great project leader. What >> an accomplishment. Congratulations to everybody who has contributed >> to Python in the last two decades! > > The more languages you learn before getting to Smalltalk, the more > awesome Smalltalk will be for you. > After implementing SmallTalk I more or less gave up OO programming for ten years, resuming it only after I met Python. SmallTalk didn't seem that awesome to me.
Though for its time it was an incredible system, its insistence on a SmallTalk-only VM environment seemed a little solipsistic. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 PyCon is coming! Atlanta, Feb 2010 http://us.pycon.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ UPCOMING EVENTS: http://holdenweb.eventbrite.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
