On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:38:14 +1200, "Richard O'Keefe" <o...@cs.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
> >On Jul 15, 2009, at 5:25 PM, Benjamin L.Russell wrote: >> it interesting that you should use the biological term "disease"; >> according to a post [1] entitled "Re: Re: Smalltalk Data Structures >> and Algorithms," by K. K. Subramaniam, dated "Mon, 29 Jun 2009 >> 11:25:34 +0530," on the squeak-beginners mailing list (see >> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/beginners/2009-June/006270.html) >> , >>> Concepts in Squeak [a dialect and implementation of Smalltalk] have >> their origins >>> in biology rather than in computational math.... > >That posting is wrong. > >Smalltalk's roots are very firmly planted in Lisp, >with perhaps a touch of Logo (which also had its roots in Lisp). >The classic Smalltalk-76 paper even contains a meta-circular >interpreter, which I found reminiscent of the old Lisp one. >The "biological" metaphor in Smalltalk is actually a SOCIAL >metaphor: sending and receiving messages, and a "social" >model of agents with memory exchanging messages naturally >leads to anthropomorphisms.... Incidentally, just for the record, in response to my forwarding your claim, Alan Kay, the inventor of Smalltalk, just refuted your refutation [1] (see http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/beginners/2009-July/006331.html); _viz._: >I most definitely still think of OOP at its best as being "biological". -- Benjamin L. Russell [1] Kay, Alan. "[Newbies] Re: Smalltalk Data Structures and Algorithms." The Beginners Archives. Squeak.org. 24 July 2009. 27 July 2009. <http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/beginners/2009-July/006331.html>. -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." -- Matsuo Basho^ _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe