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Good list. There is also interesting work that could be done starting where Strongtalk and/or Self left off (well, Strongtalk is still alive afaik but progress

by danssig 15y ago

Good list. There is also interesting work that could be done starting where Strongtalk and/or Self left off (well, Strongtalk is still alive afaik but progressing slowly). Image based programming is very different than "cult of the dead" programming and I think it still has a lot to teach us. I'd also like to see more effort going into generic functions. This is clearly a superset of message passing and is more powerful (e.g. no need for the visitor or related patterns). I'd also like to see effort put into exploring the CL conditions systems. Exceptions already made programming more robust, conditions give the developer full control over error handling.

awj 15y ago
> I'd also like to see effort put into exploring the CL conditions systems. Exceptions already made programming more robust, conditions give the developer full control over error handling. In my opinion, almost every language I've worked with could be improved with a CL style condition system. (every language that already has exceptions could :P) I'd love to see a more popular language pick this up and run with it. Especially if there's been research/improvements beyond what you get in CL.