Back in the late '80 everyone was waiting for Smalltalk, the exemplar object-programming language.
If you want to know "what happened to Smalltalk" then google the preceding quoted text. But that was then This is now: the programming community has moved on to yet another panacea -- functional programming, one that can take advantage of modern multi-core processors, something for which Smalltalk, with its multitude of state variables, was ill-suited. That's the short story. Functional is interesting. But having to rethink/restructure every problem for it might have you asking, "I have to do all THAT to do what I want to do?" I wonder if anyone is working on a Smalltalk based functional programming language as Richard Hickey was working on a Lisp based functional programming language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clojure Just the other day I was wishing for a Clojure with mutable collections. On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Joseph Alotta <joseph.alo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 1. The community seems TINY for such a cool project. At this point it > seems to mainly consist of people in academics and "old-timers" that have > stuck around since a time when Squeak was more popular. Is this correct or > am I maybe not looking in the right places? > > > > It seems a shame if such an amazing project were to die out because of > lack of popularity, considering all the possibilities that this level of > intractability with the programming environment enables. > > I’m trying to change that. I’ve started a meetup group in the Chicago > area for learning Squeak. I am hoping to have a lot of young people get > interested in it. > > I have programmed in many languages and I find smalltalk to be the easiest > to read and understand. I’ve written code in come languages, that 6 months > later was completely foreign to me. I couldn’t remember what I was > thinking when I wrote it, nor even if I wrote it. > > With smalltalk, I don’t find that. I actually enjoy programming. > > Sincerely, > > Joe. > > > > > ------------------------------ > View this message in context: Re: General Questions to the Squeak > Community > <http://forum.world.st/General-Questions-to-the-Squeak-Community-tp4909374p4909447.html> > Sent from the Squeak - Beginners mailing list archive > <http://forum.world.st/Squeak-Beginners-f107673.html> at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Beginners mailing list > Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners > >
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