With or without Seaside, Smalltalk
needs to return to the mainstream. The current crop of mainstream
languages, pretty much feel like handcuffs in comparison.
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Handcuffs come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Python doesn't feel cuffed to me; syntax and concepts in Smalltalk and Lisp do feel constraining even though conceptually I know they are not. At least the dynamic language community can agree that all serious dynamic languages let one deliver real work faster than their chained bretheren.
I would put Python in the Lisp and Smalltalk camp. Although some significant voices in the community are troubling me. See past discussions on Python which I would just as soon forget.
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2 comments:
Handcuffs come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Python doesn't feel cuffed to me; syntax and concepts in Smalltalk and Lisp do feel constraining even though conceptually I know they are not. At least the dynamic language community can agree that all serious dynamic languages let one deliver real work faster than their chained bretheren.
I would put Python in the Lisp and Smalltalk camp. Although some significant voices in the community are troubling me. See past discussions on Python which I would just as soon forget.
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