On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:50:09 +0100, Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:
On 17/12/2008, at 15:17, Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
[... then]
"Smalltalk is the ancient Egyptian religion. The Initiated know it
already had all the important concepts working long ago and most
popular modern languages are incomplete subsets of it that obsess over
artificial restrictions of their own creation while entirely missing
the reason their code exists in the first place.
And the heart of your code will be judged against the Feather of Truth
before it can join the message passing afterlife."
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This was slashdotted, originated here
- http://www.aegisub.net/2008/12/if-programming-languages-were-
religions.html
Could nor resist mentioning for the squeak-list records ;)
/Klaus
...
Very good , read this old
http://www.scribd.com/doc/320372/How-to-kill-a-Dragon-with-Programming
I tried the link, the page says "iPaper loading, please wait" but nothing
else happens (except perhaps a virus infection is attempted?)
So what's this about?
--
"If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it".
Albert Einstein
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