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Why Smalltalk instead of Ruby(blog.arkency.com)
11 points by horrido 10y ago|0 comments
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How learning Smalltalk can make you a better developer(techinasia.com)
1 points by horrido 10y ago|0 comments
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My Debt to TechBeacon(medium.com)
1 points by horrido 10y ago|0 comments
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What does it mean to “code?”(medium.com)
3 points by horrido 10y ago|0 comments
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Smalltalk to the Redline(medium.com)
3 points by horrido 10y ago|0 comments
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Happy New Year for Smalltalk(medium.com)
1 points by horrido 10y ago|0 comments
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Is Functional Programming Overtaking the IT Industry?(medium.com)
2 points by horrido 10y ago|0 comments
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My Christmas gift to OOP aficionados(medium.com)
3 points by horrido 10y ago|2 comments
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by horrido 10y ago
Exactly what I was thinking.
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Why choose Smalltalk over Python for startups(medium.com)
2 points by horrido 10y ago|0 comments
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by horrido 10y ago
Java is currently the most popular language in the world. There are far more job postings for Java than for any other programming language. Java is the enterprise standard language. Java has a tremendous ecosystem and a vast user community.
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by horrido 10y ago
The material is available in both French and English. The videos have English subtitles. There is no language difficulty.
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by horrido 10y ago
You're over-generalizing. This is very much a matter of personal taste/inclination. Do ALL Lispers love the Lisp style of syntax? Of course not. Moreover, for many programmers, it's asking too much of them to wrap their heads
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by horrido 10y ago
In the article, I linked to: http://techbeacon.com/how-learning-smalltalk-can-make-you-be... . This is where you'll see an example of Smalltalk code. Many programmers obsess over performance, but the fact is, in today&#
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by horrido 10y ago
Try this Pharo MOOC: http://files.pharo.org/mooc/ The actual course is over, but all the course material is still available. It's an excellent resource.
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Smalltalk vs. Scheme, JavaScript, and Java(medium.com)
43 points by horrido 10y ago|73 comments
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Make Smalltalk Great Again(smalltalkrenaissance.wordpress.com)
2 points by horrido 10y ago|0 comments
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Programming language rankings(techbeacon.com)
4 points by horrido 10y ago|0 comments
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The Ultimate Smalltalk Tutorial(gofundme.com)
2 points by horrido 10y ago|0 comments
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Your choice of 14 major programming languages(techbeacon.com)
1 points by horrido 10y ago|0 comments
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by horrido 10y ago
"It's often argued the impedance mismatch with version control is what killed Smalltalk." Wrong argument. Here's the truth: https://medium.com/smalltalk-talk/why-smalltalk-failed-to-do... Smalltalk
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by horrido 10y ago
I've never made any bones about this. Of course, I'm an evangelist.
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by horrido 10y ago
The size of the Smalltalk user base isn't large enough to support a healthy ecosystem. Hence, the reason for my evangelism to grow the community! Another issue is fragmentation: there are too many dialects. That's why I generally
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Smalltalk ruined my life(medium.com)
2 points by horrido 10y ago|6 comments
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by horrido 10y ago
Smalltalk doesn't only rely on OOP. It has lambdas and closures so that you have functional capabilities, too. Not strictly multi-paradigm, but close enough. This is why Smalltalk is so powerful. Multiple inheritance has its problems,
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by horrido 10y ago
There was, and it's explained here: https://medium.com/smalltalk-talk/why-aren-t-people-using-sm...
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by horrido 10y ago
Thank you for this! I learned something today. I shall have to post this in the Comment section of the article.
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by horrido 10y ago
Unfortunately, no.
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by horrido 10y ago
The article explains how you can be productive. It's mostly in the "live coding/debugging" environment, which dramatically shortens the edit-test-debug cycle. The low cognitive friction of the language itself is also pre
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by horrido 10y ago
I use Amber Smalltalk to write cross-platform mobile apps for Android and iOS: https://medium.com/smalltalk-talk/amber-alert-we-can-do-mobi... Smalltalk is not stuck as an academic language. Cincom and GemTalk would be

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