Re: The Universal Language

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 1990 16:31

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In article <1990Aug20.220332.21135@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> morrison@thucydides.cs.uiuc.edu.UUCP (Vance Morrison) writes:
> Introducing more general smalltalk code that causes side effects can
> destroy the simple properties of the whole program INCLUDING the code
> written in the subset.

Couldn't you use the more restricted code to produce objects that can
be reasoned about in the way you're describing? This would let you build
reliable objects, which would eliminate a large potential source of bugs
in a larger program using the whole language?
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
+1 713 274 5180.   'U`
peter@ferranti.com

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Subject: Re: The Universal Language
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