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From: guycole@netcom.com (Guy Cole)
Subject: Re: Yourdan's recent article on SM
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skykeys@ibm.net wrote:
: Has anyone read Ed Yourdan's recent (April 96) article 
: in Application Development Strategies intitled "The Future of Smalltalk"? 
: I thought the article would have raised a few eyebrows by now.  

I find Ed Yourdan quite easy to dismiss.  Just have a look at "The Decline
and Fall of the American Programmer" and think about the industry today.
I don't think his predictions quite match up.

Actually, I think he just likes to make provocative statements in an effort
to promote his speaking fees.  I would be interested to learn when he last
coded anything of size, or even lead a project.

I just skipped over the article.  Should smalltalk cease to be commercially
viable, I'll be coding in whatever pays the bills.  These "my language is
better and your going to hell without it" articles are only noise. 
 
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