Nice piece of history, both in music and CS!
2014-04-29 18:30 GMT+02:00 Göran Krampe <go...@krampe.se>: > Howdy! > > (cc to squeak-dev because I think lots want to read this) > > If you want to know some cool history of Smalltalk, and perhaps this is a > strong argument in actually *being* a Smalltalk and not trying to distance > yourself from that rich and lovely heritage.... anyway, here goes: > > On 04/28/2014 08:14 PM, Alain Busser wrote: > >> Also, Ruby is famous for these methods: >> >> *select >> *reject >> *collect >> >> do these names not remind you something ;-) ? >> > > There is a funny story about these verbs. Martin McClure told me at ESUG > in Brest to ask Dan Ingalls about it, hinting that they are "inspired" by a > famous song. > > And thus I did ask Dan in my interview with him I did a few years back > over Skype (it is an interesting interview, for example - was there an > inspiration from biology when Smalltalk was created?): > > http://files.krampe.se/interview.mp3 > > ...the song in question is by Arlo Guthrie: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Restaurant_Massacree > > ...and here is a URL to the lyrics of it: > > http://www.lyricsty.com/arlo-guthrie-alices-restaurant-lyrics.html > > (search down to "injected"!) ...or just let me quote: > > "They got a building down New York City, it's called Whitehall Street, > Where you walk in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected, > Neglected and selected. I went down to get my physical examination one > Day, and I walked in, I sat down, got good and drunk the night before, so > I looked and felt my best when I went in that morning." > > > ...now... where do we stuff in #neglect:? :) > > regards, Göran > > -- Bernat Romagosa.
