From: jgamble@... (John M. Gamble) Date: 2005-04-23T14:44:41+09:00 Subject: Re: Truth, Void, Smalltalk, Lisp, and Ruby (was: Re: Ilias is Crazy -- a plea) In article , Peter Suk wrote: > >On a barely related note, my Lisp-er coworker was talking with me about >inheritance in Smalltalk, Ruby, and Lisp. It turns out that in Common >Lisp Object System, the superclass of Object is T, or their "true". In >Smalltalk and Ruby, however, the superclass of Object is "nil." > >Hence Lisp springs from "Truth." While Smalltalk and Ruby spring from >the "void" or "nothingness." There is an eastern/western religion >thing in there somewhere. > "You can't handle the Truth!" - now a Lisp philosphy. -- -john February 28 1997: Last day libraries could order catalogue cards from the Library of Congress.