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Cybernetic Vermin posted:ruby as smalltalk with better syntax is pretty cool. except it’s not, it’s Smalltalk fanfic with far worse syntax yes Smalltalk’s syntax is different than what everyone used to Algol-family languages like Pascal and C and JavaScript is used to, but that doesn’t make it bad hell, it barely has syntax; like Lisp, a parser is like a single page of code, and both the syntax and semantics are ultra-simple compilation of Smalltalk involves barely more than translating the AST into bytecode, such that some Smalltalk systems support source-level debugging of bytecode for which the source has been lost by just regenerating it sans comments and sensible variable names
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“why do all our new customers want stuff to all be eraseable at a single button press?”
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