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We are raising a
generation of object people who’ve know only Java. They no nothing of
Smalltalk, the MOP, or multimethods. This is a tragedy. It is one that should
have been avoided, and it is one that must be redressed.
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Spelunking around
the Smalltalk image is the finest apprenticeship in object-oriented design
and programming a boy / a person / a body could possibly have / ask for. If
they had World Heritage sites in cyberspace, the PARC images, the land of
Ingalls, and Kay, and Goldbeg, and Kahler, and Liebs, and … <oversight>
ought be one…
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The CLOS MOP is one
of the most remarkable object oriented designs I’ve ever seen. The Art of the
MOP is a landmark that has nearly been lost.
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The sheer potential
of building languages out of objects is being forgotten, even as it reemerges
that the next level. It cannot be swept under the rug. Eclipse is a pile of
black box components built of reflective glue, but everywhere, designers of
all kinds are rediscovering this power…
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