Smalltalk Humor
From: David Buell
Subject: OOP/Smalltalk Humor
A friend at apple tells an anecdote of a presentation that someone from
[creator of PASCAL] Wirth's research project LILITH was giving at Apple.
LILITH is a "dynamic" programming environment. Like it's got browsers and
classes and instances and inspectors and interpreted-like class definitions
and looks a lot like the smalltalk environment does.
At the end of the talk, someone from the audience stands up and asks
something to this effect:
>> -- You claim your system is object-oriented
>>
>> -- Yes
>>
>> -- but it doesn't have late binding
>>
>> -- right
>>
>> -- and it doesn't have garbage collection
>>
>> -- right
>>
>> -- and it doesn't have ...
>>
>> and he goes on to accuse the system of not having a lot of the
>> things that Smalltalk has.
>>
>> -- then it's not really object-oriented after all, is it?
>>
>> -- well, who's to say what object-oriented is?
>>
>> -- I am. I'm Alan Kay, and I coined the term.
>>
Regards,
Dave