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From: dbuck@superior.carleton.ca (Dave Buck)
Subject: Re: Why use Smalltalk as the primary development language ...
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In article <4bkl22$dti@news2.ios.com>, vlad <vlad@gramercy.ios.com> wrote:
 >I really don't know how to explain my "feelings". 
 >Sometimes the Smalltalk behaves as a wonderful language, other times
 >it is a simple script language and another time it is an outdated
 >windowing system. 
 >According to me the Smalltalk is an application development tool not a
 >language. I simply don't know how to prove it because nobody told me
 >how to recognize a programming language. 
 >
 >Is Windows SDK with the all APIs a programming language? No!
 >Is Smalltalk a SDK? Yes!

Languages have constructs such as variables, conditions, looping
constructs, procedures/functions, and data representations along with
a syntax for describing the desired functionality.  Smalltalk has all
of these.  the Windows SDK with all the API's doesn't.

David Buck
dbuck@ccs.carleton.ca

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