Re: [Newbies] [OT] If programming languages were religions...

2008-12-17 Thread Edgar J. De Cleene
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

[Newbies] [OT] If programming languages were religions...

2008-12-17 Thread Klaus D. Witzel
[... 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 reaso