From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_05 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 29 May 93 20:13:27 GMT From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!kuhub.cc.uk ans.edu!hawk!billk@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Kinnersley) Subject: Re: Mother of all languages, which now? Message-ID: List-Id: In article <1u2r7u$1td5@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> ucaa2385@servus12.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Peter Hermann) writes: : : Shooting Yourself in the Foot : ----------------------------- : Smalltalk: You send the message shoot to gun, with selectors bullet and myFoot. A window pops up saying Gunpowder doesNotUnderstand: spark. After several hours spent fruitlessly browsing the methods for Trigger, FiringPin and IdealGas, you take the easy way out and create ShotFoot, a subclass of Foot with an additional instance variable bullet hole. -- --Bill Kinnersley billk@hawk.cs.ukans.edu 226 Transfer complete.