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No, most Smalltalk objects were not Turing Complete. Take numbers. Numbers are objects in Smalltalk. They're not Turing Complete.
by mgummelt 7y ago
No, most Smalltalk objects were not Turing Complete. Take numbers. Numbers are objects in Smalltalk. They're not Turing Complete.
- infinite8s 7y agoHe seems to hint a bit what he meant in this HN comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11946935 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11946935. Also remember that what most people think of Smalltalk (ie Smalltalk-80) doesnt seem to be what AK thinks of Smalltalk (I get the feeling that the Smalltalk-72 approach is closer to the ideals he had in mind).