> I fear it would turn out equivalent. Only some 30 or so years earlier, and who knows what we'd have come up with, given such an early head start? I work in

> I fear it would turn out equivalent. Only some 30 or so years earlier, and who knows what we'd have come up with, given such an early head start? I work in the space of dynamic language runtimes, and it hurts me to see how ideas pioneered by SmallTalk and subsequently the Self language[1] runtimes haven't yet been adopted by some of the more popular dynamic languages today. [1]: http://bibliography.selflanguage.org/_static/implementation.pdf http://bibliography.selflanguage.org/_static/implementation....