🚀 go-pugleaf

David Christie <dc@netscape.com> wrote:

> Rick DeNatale wrote:
> 
> > Now if Java, which is effectively a poorly implemented stripped down
> > version of Smalltalk with a C++ flavored syntax, and lacking a few
> > important features (like block closures), can do the job, good for it. I
> > have my doubts however, due to it being let out into the cold cruel world
> > without all of the support it needs.
> 
> I enjoyed you posting, Rick, and agreed with a lot of it, but I have to take 
> exception to that last paragraph.
> 
> Java is not stripped down Smalltalk.  It differs fundamentally by being 
> strongly typed.  In that is much closer to C++, and not just syntactically.
>
> ...
> [removed a long and well articulated dissertation on why Java is
>  appropriate for its target where others aren't]
> ...
> 
> -- 
> David Christie          Netscape Communications Corporation
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Very well stated.  I agree with your entire post, except I guess it was
too late at night when I read Rick's post to which you were responding
'cause I didn't particularly enjoy it and I've been defending that
position ever since!  :)

Doug Bell
dbell@shvn.com