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- From: richieb@bony1.bony.com (Richard Bielak)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Why Hybrids appear so Pure
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.131430.11789@bony1.bony.com>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 13:14:30 GMT
- References: <1bn2d0INNn9v@gap.caltech.edu>
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- In article <1bn2d0INNn9v@gap.caltech.edu> donb@cco.caltech.edu (Don
- Brotemarkle) writes:
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- [...]
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- >In other words, SmallTalk allowed the user to have the same view
- >of the programming structures as the programmer. And this was
- >a success.
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- I think you've got it backwards :-). Smalltalk allowed the
- *programmer* to have the same view as the user, so that the program
- could be constructed in terms of things the user understands.
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-
- ...richie
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