"Craig" == Craig Latta <craig@netjam.org> writes:
Craig> Hi Mariano--
I know the reasons and the history...
Craig> Hm, I don't think I know the history. As far as I can tell, Craig> Smalltalk-80 used "the receiver" instead of "I". When did the Craig> anthropomorphic style arise? As I recall, browsing the original ST80rel2 image at Tektronix in 1982 on a magnolia box (68k bitmapped 1024x768 display), I was amused by the class comments that generally all started with "I am ...", or "Instances of me hold ...". I think down in some of the technical parts, "the receiver" was used because it wasn't "self" somehow. But generally, the original image is very "I am"-ish. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion