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The Weaknesses of Smalltalk Are the Strengths of Erlang

• sp332 3y ago
  You linked to the comment section, which is kind of confusing.
• nubinetwork 3y ago
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• igouy 3y ago
  (From 2011, talking about 1997.) "… built for complete portability. Its compiler produces source code in a platform-independent bytecode. The bytecode is then translated at runtime into native machine code for the given platform. Rating: 9" Doesn't that sound exactly like Smalltalk? But instead: "Because it is not standardized and vendors have created several different de facto standards, Smalltalk has poor portability characteristics, in general." ---- Complexity management (architecture support) Java does not provide any additional support for managing very large software components, such as subsystems. Rating: 7 However, [Smalltalk] provides no mechanism for managing very large software components, such as subsystems. Rating: 6 So Smalltalk was rated one less when being the same as Java :-) ---- Sometimes the remarks seem aimed at library functionality rather than the languages as such.