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> … doesn’t mean Smalltalk, but the class-based horror used in Python or Java… If you're suggesting Smalltalk is not class-based then what do you mean by "clas

by igouy 4y ago

> … doesn’t mean Smalltalk, but the class-based horror used in Python or Java… If you're suggesting Smalltalk is not class-based then what do you mean by "class-based" ?

leephillips 4y ago
I was trying, clumsily, to bring to mind the differences between Smalltalk’s object/message model and the class/method model of Python, etc.
- igouy 4y ago
  In the first case, program + program changes; in the second case, program definitions. Smalltalk language implementations provide a prototype program and we make our software by making changes to that prototype — by sending messages to instantiated objects — not by writing definitions.