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From: Reinout Heeck <reinz@Desk.org>
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Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> 
[...]
> 
> It seems to me that regardless of the language chosen, a restricted
> subset is _always_ appropriate.  For any reasonable language there
> are bound to be parts that while helpful in certain real-world
> programming situations are not illustrative of the _concepts_
> involved in programming.

In the case of Smalltalk you will need to slightly change that
statement: the core system is very tiny, all the functionality is in
it's class library. That even goes as far as that the core does not
implement control flow, the libraries do. Restricting one to only part
of the libraries is wat every programmer does.


Reinout
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