From: Gawnsoft <xlucid@...>
Date: 2003-08-21T23:13:43+09:00
Subject: Re: the mindshare of Ruby (was)

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 08:57:22 -0700, "Brandon J. Van Every"
<vanevery@3DProgrammer.com> wrote (more or less):

>Smalltalk is dead not because its paradigms are outmoded, but because other
>languages have offered similar things and have improved generally upon it.

Not true.

>The mindshare has moved on.  

True.


>No sane programmer uses it for new applications
>or systems development.  

Not true.

>Smalltalk is a has-been language.

True or not true, depends on whether the technical facilities or the
mindshare is most important for you in defining 'has-been'.



Cheers, 
   Euan
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