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I haven't learned ST yet but look forward to someday; currently I'm learning a bit of Ruby. I don't doubt that it is an excellent language, but is it actually e
by zengid 10y ago
I haven't learned ST yet but look forward to someday; currently I'm learning a bit of Ruby. I don't doubt that it is an excellent language, but is it actually easier to learn without any prior programming experience, or is that claim it just based on opinions?
- agumonkey 10y agoI don't know any methodical study, so it may only be opinions. That said, after suffering years of bad language features, you feel weird when one actually delivers on some bold claims. Smalltalk is not even a language, it's a system, a self contained system that is quite small, consistent, yet somehow devoid of ceremony (FP languages are small, but one has to read through the culture, ST stay low in intellectualization). I don't see many of the things that tripped me up as a noob, and lots of stuff that I ended up seeing as valuable (how booleans are defined for instance).