http://u2d.com/articles/2005/12/22/smalltalk en-us 40 <p>What I love about smalltalk is that nothing is out of band. The number of concepts is so brilliantly minimal. By simply treating a block of code as an object, you can implement control structures and exception handling <em>in the language</em>. Code such as:</p> <pre><code>[#(1 2 4) at: 5] ifError: [:msg :obj | nil]. </code></pre> <p>..is pure beauty (taken from pg 202, <em>Squeak, A Quick Trip to ObjectLand</em>).</p> <p>It also makes me wonder why ruby is getting so much attention when in fact the things that make ruby great are essentially borrowed smalltalk features.</p> Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:11:58 -0600 urn:uuid:62ed01e0bd83fce94e546f31f09053ee eitan http://u2d.com/articles/2005/12/22/smalltalk Programming