Howdy! (cc to squeak-dev because I think lots want to read this) If you want to know some cool history of Smalltalk, and perhaps this is a strong argument in actually *being* a Smalltalk and not trying to distance yourself from that rich and lovely heritage.... anyway, here goes: On 04/28/2014 08:14 PM, Alain Busser wrote:
Also, Ruby is famous for these methods:
*select *reject *collect
do these names not remind you something ;-) ?
There is a funny story about these verbs. Martin McClure told me at ESUG in Brest to ask Dan Ingalls about it, hinting that they are "inspired" by a famous song. And thus I did ask Dan in my interview with him I did a few years back over Skype (it is an interesting interview, for example - was there an inspiration from biology when Smalltalk was created?): http://files.krampe.se/interview.mp3 ...the song in question is by Arlo Guthrie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Restaurant_Massacree ...and here is a URL to the lyrics of it: http://www.lyricsty.com/arlo-guthrie-alices-restaurant-lyrics.html (search down to "injected"!) ...or just let me quote: "They got a building down New York City, it's called Whitehall Street, Where you walk in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected, Neglected and selected. I went down to get my physical examination one Day, and I walked in, I sat down, got good and drunk the night before, so I looked and felt my best when I went in that morning." ...now... where do we stuff in #neglect:? :) regards, Göran