Influential Programming Languages, Part 3: Smalltalk Message-Sending

by macco on 1/14/2011, 6:14 PM with 5 comments
  • by pchristensen on 1/14/2011, 7:30 PM

    Single page: http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=1671...

    Rest of the Series

      ALGOL: http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=1671636

  Simula: http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=1671637

  Lisp: http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=1671639

  • by kenjackson on 1/14/2011, 7:31 PM

    The second to last paragraph got a laugh:

    "The Smalltalk family has lots of other members. Ruby, for example, was intended to marry Smalltalk semantics with Perl syntax. Why anyone thought this was a good idea is unclear."