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Since one of my professors forced all students to learn Smalltalk I deeply respect Alan Kay. This language is so consistent and readable at the same time. Whene
by JepZ 10y ago
Since one of my professors forced all students to learn Smalltalk I deeply respect Alan Kay. This language is so consistent and readable at the same time. Whenever I heard a story of him or saw something he had done this respect grows.
But somehow I stick to code in golang in my spare time. I am afraid I will never see a language designed by Alan Kay and Ken Thompson together ;-)
Thx for the HN Alan Kay Edition
- vanderZwan 10y agoHave you tried Pharo[0], which is trying to be a modern Smalltalk-like? There is a free online course[1] going on at the moment as well (French videos but subtitled), it's really good. [0] http://pharo.org/ http://pharo.org/ [1] https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/inria/41010/session01/ https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/inria/41010/session01/
- JepZ 10y agoLooks interessting, but I don't like those large IDEs and the image philosophy neither. So for example I use vim instead of eclipse and I really like the golang tooling, because it is quite simple to use from a shell. What I like about Smalltalk is the language and how it is build on very few principles. The IDEs integrate well with the language but not with the system around them and have a lot of overhead :-/
- nine_k 10y ago're very few principles: I suppose you're acquainted wild Scheme (Racket, Clojure) and Forth?