Comment by mpweiher
1 year ago
If you can't tell the difference, you didn't actually learn it.
Doesn't mean you have to like it, but they are different.
1 year ago
If you can't tell the difference, you didn't actually learn it.
Doesn't mean you have to like it, but they are different.
you may want to read the whole discussion following the linked comment to understand what i learned. if you have any additional insights i'd appreciate your input.
What makes you think I didn't?
well, if you did, then can you please tell me what i am missing? i have written a decent amount if smalltalk code, and even held workshops teaching smalltalk to others. and i have written lots of code in many other languages.
i did see differences. the most awesome was when i wrote some code to respond to an http request, the code failed, the http request stalled, i fixed the code live, and then the http request resumed.
but i can do the same in pike if i tried, and i expect in lisp and other languages too.
and if that is the case then it supports my understanding that most OO languages use message passing. where then is the great revelation that comes from smalltalk?
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