On 20/07/2007, at 3:22 PM, Paul Cunningham wrote:
Java is your intellectual middle-ground between static, platform
dependent, crashable, dead-end C++ and unpopular, dynamically
configurable, idealistic Smalltalk. I'm happy as hell that is has
become as popular as it is, even if many of its advances have been
subsidized by the promises of J2EE.
I think 'unpopular' is incorrect. Maybe 'low profile' would be
better. Unpopular implies an active dislike. Nor is it idealistic -
in fact, the Smalltalk vendors and community, given it's size, tends
to be somewhat too 'agile' for my taste.
Large commercial systems are delivered in Smalltalk - I'm delivering
two commercial VisualWorks Smalltalk systems right now, and I can
report that the development process is enormously more enjoyable
than the Java Spring/Hibernate stuff I was doing. I haven't felt
such an increase in power and intellectual leverage since I switched
from Windows/MacOS C++ to Nextstep, and Objective-C doesn't begin
compare to the power of Smalltalk!
Antony Blakey
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