From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better! Date: 1997/01/27 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 212638668 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object,comp.software-eng Date: 1997-01-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <32EB94C4.2CA5@parcplace.com> Eric Clayberg writes: > Jon S Anthony wrote: > > That's nice, but should be irrelevant to the customer. So, I don't > > see how this could _objectively_ have anything to do with why they > > like it - they never see the syntax (or at least they shouldn't have > > to!) > > I think we have a disconnect as to who "they" are. My comment concerned > the developers who actually have to program in the language, not the end > users of the resultant application. I was merely trying to point out > some of the reasons why the decision makers in the securities industry > had selected Smalltalk for their internal development efforts. The > simplicity of the language and its syntax is one of its major appeals > (although certainly not the only one). Aha! Another "talking past one another" instance. I wonder how many times this has happened in this thread alone and been _missed_? And thereby generating a lot of irrelevant heat and no light... /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com