Hmmm, I do not think that VisualWorks with VM - 3 - times - faster - than - java looks like a hystorical artifact ;-)
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 11:04 PM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: > > On Jun 17, 2015, at 12:30 PM, Ariel Feinerman <arielfap...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Why just do not use some clone of Smalltalk for Mac OS X before inventing > new language? > > > Maybe because it wouldn’t achieve any of Apple’s stated goals, like high > performance and type-safety? > > I used Smalltalk-80 extensively back in the ‘80s (while working at Xerox > no less) and it was a cool language for its time, but it’s a historical > artifact now. (Yes, I’m aware of Squeak. It’s kind of an SCA of programming > languages.) If Apple had wanted that sort of language they would have kept > developing the MacRuby they were putting some resources into a few years > ago. (Yeah, not the same language, but Ruby’s in the same general family > and has a lot of ST-80 influence.) > > Guys, talking about Swift vs. Obj-C/C/C++ has a slight amount of use, but > if we start dragging everyone’s pet language into the fray (Algol? > Burroughs B5000 assembly?) then this just becomes another boring language > flame-war. Don’t do that. > > —Jens > -- best regards Ariel _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
