This month’s IDG.se column: Giving props to Smalltalk
Alan Kay recently won the Turing award for his work on Smalltalk and subsequent projects. I spent some time with the free smalltalk implementation Squeak this weekend, and was particularly impressed...
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Smalltalk, risk and success stories
In the comments section to an earlier post Göran Krampe brought up some excellent points, backed by experience, on my remark that more dynamic languages increases risk in projects, especially if all...
View ArticleState of alternative languages on the CLR?
A big selling point in the initial marketing of the .Net platform was that it was supposed to enable code written in different language to interoperate smoothly. I always looked at that claim with a...
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Smalltalk and Seaside for web applications
So, after debating at length with Göran about pros and cons of Smalltalk as a platform for real world development, I came to the conclusion that Smalltalk was worth looking into in greater detail, and...
View ArticleQuickies of the day
Not much time for interesting posts of my own these days, busy studying history for my final oral exam on Wednesday. Meanwhile, here’s what interested me in the blogosphere today. Interesting blog...
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