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Smallltalk is a dream language. It's tooling, syntax and productivity is years ahead of anything. Take for example the Swift language. It's great, yes. But whe
by marvel_boy 11y ago
Smallltalk is a dream language. It's tooling, syntax and productivity is years ahead of anything.
Take for example the Swift language. It's great, yes. But when you see ppl admiring the interactive playground: this is the Transcript windows available on Smalltalk 20-30 years ago !
- zvrba 11y agoPeople who had to maintain complex financial systems would disagree. They were slowly migrating to, IIRC, Java.
- marvel_boy 11y agoDo you know what is the main novelty of last version of Java? Yes, "lambdas", available on Smalltalk 30 years ago from day-one.
- zvrba 11y agoTheir reasons were maintainability due to static typing.