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Influential Programming Languages, Part 3: Smalltalk Message-Sending

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Rest of the Series

  ALGOL: http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=1671636

  Simula: http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=1671637

  Lisp: http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=1671639

The second to last paragraph got a laugh:

"The Smalltalk family has lots of other members. Ruby, for example, was intended to marry Smalltalk semantics with Perl syntax. Why anyone thought this was a good idea is unclear."

From a brief history of programming languages:

'1986 - Brad Cox and Tom Love create Objective-C, announcing "this language has all the memory safety of C combined with all the blazing speed of Smalltalk."'

Aw you missed the best part

"Modern historians suspect the two were dyslexic."

Why? Larry Wall is a idol to Matz and the influence of Smalltalk in Ruby is evident.

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