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From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better!
In-Reply-To: Eric Clayberg's message of Sun, 26 Jan 1997 12:30:44 -0500
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In article <32EB94C4.2CA5@parcplace.com> Eric Clayberg <clayberg@parcplace.com> writes:

> Jon S Anthony wrote:
> > That's nice, but should be irrelevant to the customer.  So, I don't
> > see how this could _objectively_ have anything to do with why they
> > like it - they never see the syntax (or at least they shouldn't have
> > to!)
> 
> I think we have a disconnect as to who "they" are. My comment concerned
> the developers who actually have to program in the language, not the end
> users of the resultant application. I was merely trying to point out
> some of the reasons why the decision makers in the securities industry
> had selected Smalltalk for their internal development efforts. The
> simplicity of the language and its syntax is one of its major appeals
> (although certainly not the only one).

Aha!  Another "talking past one another" instance.  I wonder how many
times this has happened in this thread alone and been _missed_?  And
thereby generating a lot of irrelevant heat and no light...

/Jon
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