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I think Smalltalk is a bad example for this. I've been told by Smalltalk programmers that everything in that eco system used to be insanely expensive. A better
by ajmurmann 10y ago
I think Smalltalk is a bad example for this. I've been told by Smalltalk programmers that everything in that eco system used to be insanely expensive. A better example is probably Haskell or Lisp. As you are probably trying to imply the learning curve seriously matters. Go is a true winner here.
- stcredzero 10y agoI've been told by Smalltalk programmers that everything in that eco system used to be insanely expensive. There was a period of time when this was true, which helped to kill Smalltalk mindshare. Then, there was a period of time when there were many economically priced Smalltalk environments, and a even a good FOSS one. Now, we have a couple of good FOSS environments.
- kazinator 10y agoRight; so expensive that an entire OOP system with a GUI fit into an image that ran in half a meg of RAM. Firefox can't render a damned favicon with the resources that Smalltalk used. Everything you're doing now either was or would have been insanely expensive in 1983. Emacs used to be derided as being an acronym for "eight megabytes and constantly swapping". Sure, a big deal on a Sun3 with 4 megs of RAM.
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoHalf a meg of RAM is cheap. A $5000 software license isn't. It wasn't the price of RAM that made Smalltalk expensive.