In article <873873ae91....@jester.gateway.sonic.net>, no.email@nospam.invalid says... > > Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> writes: > > In 2009, Robert Martin gave a talk at RailsConf titled "What Killed > > Smalltalk Could Kill Ruby"... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX3iRjKj7C0 > > That's an hour-long video; could someone who's watched it give a brief > summary? >
In a nutshell, he argues, along with Ward Cunningham, that what killed Smalltalk was how easy you could create unclean code with it. "Unclean" in this context means Smalltalk didn't punish bad software design decisions that would eventually lead into complex code and unmanageable systems with zero options of code maintenance. I don't have an opinion. I didn't know Smalltalk. I started my programming carrer around the early nineties as a Dbase and later Clipper programmer. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
