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From: dmilne@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Dave Milne")
Subject: Re: C++ / Smalltalk
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Date: Sat, 17 Dec 1994 00:06:13 GMT
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Jeff Sunderland wrote ..

>Smalltalk is an application language.  You don't need to understand
>pointers and memory is managed for you.

You might teach a village idiot to make a Smalltalk prog more easily
than a C++ prog, but do you really think that any serious Smalltalker
thinks that he can get by without understanding memory management and
references ? I don't, what do the rest think ?

Dave.
