Subj : Re: future? To : comp.programming From : Chris Sonnack Date : Fri Sep 09 2005 06:42 pm Phlip writes: >>> Dynamic languages will take over most of the higher levels (GUI, >>> database, glue). Python, Ruby, and Smalltalk show the way here. >> >> Yet, Smalltalk has been around a LONG time and doesn't seem to have >> 'shown a way' others seem to want to follow. > > Smalltalk - the incubator of GUIs and TDD - has not "shown a way"? GUIs are a natural consequence of computers. There's nothing in ST that's special and TDD has hardly captured the hearts and minds. So, no, I don't credit ST with those. > What planet do YOU live on?? Sol III. Circles a small unregarded yellow sun far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy. Its inhabitants are .... mostly harmless. -- |_ CJSonnack _____________| How's my programming? | |_ http://www.Sonnack.com/ ___________________| Call: 1-800-DEV-NULL | |_____________________________________________|_______________________| .