On 13 February 2010 03:12, Eagle Offshore <eagleoffshore@mac.com> wrote:
I think the really tragic thing is that nothing in Smalltalk remains stable.
Hehe.. and i love smalltalk exactly because of that! Let's not forget that it is hardware, which called 'an early frozen software'. Smalltalk evolves, because IT CAN. ;) But sure, its not hard to find a stable things nowadays - see java with its 'final' stuff :)
It would seem to me that in a language that has been around thirty years or so that core data types like numbers, dates, times, and (hopefully, although adoption of unicode was disruptive) strings would be the same across all the dialects.
By now, there should be some chunks of the system that we can deem fully mature and then learn to LEAVE ALONE.
The 16rff issue is a fine example of an absolutely stupid incompatibility.
Just my $.04
-Todd Blanchard
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