From: Mike Stephens <rubfor@...>
Date: 2009-08-01T17:19:31+09:00
Subject: Re: How Come Ruby is Text-Oriented?

The point I really meant to get across is why are we typing text INTO AN 
EDITOR.
Smalltalk arrived in an era of single tier systems and provided its own 
windowing environment that was integrated. Nowadays we have more varied 
environments - particularly web - but you have to stick various other 
tools together to make a working system (IDE, Web design package etc).
Smalltalk wasn't just a programming paradigm, it was also a philosophy 
of how to make computers easy to program. There is none of that in Ruby. 
Most experts seem to talk to each other like boffins at a rocket science 
convention. That's just what I noticed if I compare typical Ruby books 
with Smalltalk. One is trying to open up capability by making things 
easy and accessible; the other is dazzled by sophistication and 
complexity.

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