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Influential Programming Languages, Part 3: Smalltalk Message-Sending

• pchristensen 16y ago
  Single page: http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=1671638 http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=1671... Rest of the Series ALGOL: http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=1671636 Simula: http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=1671637 Lisp: http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=1671639
• kenjackson 16y ago
  The second to last paragraph got a laugh: "The Smalltalk family has lots of other members. Ruby, for example, was intended to marry Smalltalk semantics with Perl syntax. Why anyone thought this was a good idea is unclear."
  • Stormbringer 16y ago
    From a brief history of programming languages: '1986 - Brad Cox and Tom Love create Objective-C, announcing "this language has all the memory safety of C combined with all the blazing speed of Smalltalk."'
    • kunjaan 16y ago
      Aw you missed the best part "Modern historians suspect the two were dyslexic."
  • macco 16y ago
    Why? Larry Wall is a idol to Matz and the influence of Smalltalk in Ruby is evident.