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by horrido 12y ago
"It may be because I actually do know better." And what is it that you know better? It would be difficult to defend current software development practice as being ideal or supremely productive. However, I can see other non-tech
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by horrido 12y ago
I don't think that's what the article is saying at all. It says that when you've done things the same way for most or all of your professional life, as I have (30 years programming in FORTRAN, C/C++/C#/Objectiv
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The Smalltalk Revolution(medium.com)
84 points by horrido 12y ago|36 comments
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by horrido 12y ago
No, it's not. Software developers are human. Being a professional does not always override human nature. Statistically, most "professional" software developers will not want to adopt a language with a high cognitive load.
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by horrido 12y ago
Re: Haskell monads If something hurts my brain, I don't want to do it; I don't care about the long-term benefits. Most humans feel the same way and that's why Haskell will never become mainstream.
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by horrido 12y ago
Also, people bitch about not being able to use their favourite editors. I've never understood this, either. In my 20+ years in IT, I've never been wedded to any particular editor. And the way source is organized and presented in t
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by horrido 12y ago
I find this resistance to the Smalltalk environment a bit puzzling. It's really fundamentally no different from modern IDEs and virtual machine runtimes such as JVM. The key differentiator is the fact that every object in the Smalltalk
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by horrido 12y ago
This is exactly right. People are so invested in what they've learned that they are reluctant to give it up and try something new and different. Humans are creatures of habit. For some reason, this has never afflicted me. I've use
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by horrido 12y ago
Pharo is the closest thing to a de facto standard. It has a huge following, perhaps even the biggest of all Smalltalk users. It's the reference implementation for Seaside, the best of the Smalltalk web frameworks. It's the referen
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by horrido 12y ago
Unless you always stick to languages with the same familiar "look", learning a new language will always need more time to acclimate to. I've used FORTRAN, Tandem TAL, C/C++/C#/Objective-C, Java, Python, Go, and
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by horrido 12y ago
It's worth noting that GWT is still in use today, even at Google. So add "use Java" to Google's confusing message. However, Google is probably not interested in promoting GWT anymore. Oracle's Java patents are a P.I
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by horrido 12y ago
In fact, it may be a very smart move for Google to mandate that Dart VM be NEVER incorporated into Chrome!
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by horrido 12y ago
Google is sending out a rather confusing message: use Dart; use AngularDart; use JavaScript (AngularJS); use AtScript (AngularJS 2.0). How long before we see: use Golang? (There's already a Go2JS compiler.) Also, if Chrome is the only
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by horrido 12y ago
That's my sentiment, too: https://medium.com/@richardeng/the-future-of-dart-is-dim-517...
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by horrido 12y ago
It's okay. I'm not a fan of Java or Java-like languages, though. I'm not at all certain about its future: https://medium.com/@richardeng/the-future-of-dart-is-dim-517... But even if Dart is here to stay
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Not Just Another Beego Tutorial(medium.com)
1 points by horrido 12y ago|0 comments