I like the manifesto as well. I think what Stéphane means is that you as a developer can understand the whole system. For me that is one of the main strong points of Smalltalk: an average programmer can go and look everywhere in the system, without leaving Smalltalk, and understand what is going on (provided the code is OK). This is something that is very hard almost everywhere else (even in Common Lisp for example), let alone in C. Most scripting languages cover to little ground (using too many external libraries for example). Sven On 24 Aug 2010, at 20:14, laurent laffont wrote:
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker@inria.fr> wrote:
* A system with robust abstractions that a single person can understand
What about: * Easy to understand, easy to learn from, easy to fix
Indeed I woud like to spread the idea that little is needed to contribute, don't need to be an expert guru. Community counts.
Laurent.
Not a system that more than one person understands?
;-)
-- Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.
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