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Looking at my inspirations I would (take it with a grain of salt) say that Lisp and Forth are too simple, javascript is a mess (but with nice literal syntax for
by gokr 9y ago
Looking at my inspirations I would (take it with a grain of salt) say that Lisp and Forth are too simple, javascript is a mess (but with nice literal syntax for maps etc), Smalltalk is too complicated and Rebol is basically also a bit complicated and IMHO a bit of an oddball with some neat ideas. And Nim is a totally different beast.
- nickpsecurity 9y agoI thought Smalltalk was relatively simple. What makes you think it's too complicated?
- gokr 9y agoI have worked extensively with Smalltalk, I know it quite well and it's my favorite language. I made SqueakMap and several other packages for Squeak. Still, it's not as simple as it can/could be, especially not the meta model. Alan Kay himself has the same feelings AFAIK.
- nickpsecurity 9y agoDo you have anything specific in mind about how you'd simplify it while keeping the overall experience? That's what I meant by the question. Far as Kay, he's been building things on LISP's and Ometa-like languages in STEPS that I was aware. Given that, Im not sure how much he really believes im Smalltalk these days. Maybe he's implemented new Smalltalks that I just missed.