| From: John Clements (clements at brinckerhoff.org) Date: Thu Jun 11 18:40:47 EDT 2009 |
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On Jun 11, 2009, at 1:30 AM, Benjamin L.Russell wrote: > > Unfortunately, Smalltalk is an object-oriented language. If possible, > I would like to see something similar in a more functional programming > language such as PLT Scheme. It's not my intent to dissuade you from contributing to PLT Scheme, but I would caution you against lumping Smalltalk in with languages like Java and C++; Smalltalk is the "real" OO (cf. Matthias' talk), and includes most of the features you'd expect to find in a functional language. In fact, Smalltalk's syntax for introducing a closure is lighter-weight than Scheme's, and allows a fairly natural-looking if that's a function rather than a special form. Honestly, calling a language "OO" doesn't really mean much, these days (cf. Shriram's "post-linnean" stuff). John Clements -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2484 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/attachments/20090611/992ba896/attachment.p7s>
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