Smalltalk?!?

Article:		Advanced OOP: Multimethods
Subject:		Smalltalk?!?
Date:		2003-06-05 09:02:16
From:		anonymous2
Response to: Smalltalk?!?
I was not trying to slight Simula-67 here, which indeed comes earlier. But more readers, I think, know at least a little bit about Smalltalk than about Simula--for one thing, there are actively maintained versions of Smalltalk still out there. Obviously, Smalltalk syntax is a lot different from that of C++, Perl, Python. Ruby blocks look a bit Smalltalk-ish. But the contrast I had in mind was in the semantics, where CLOS' generic functions differ from Simula/Smalltalk descendent's message passing. By pointing to a language with a notably different syntax, the point about identifying a common underlying semantics is further emphasized. - David