smalltalk and lisp (was: strangest systems I've sent email from)

On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Paul Koning wrote: It's had at least a mediocre run. I mean, they used it for NeXTStep apps too. It's been around for quite a while with a pretty solid core of adherents. A C++ god that I used to work with called it "C++ without the suck". I don't particularly think C++ sucks, though (or I guess I got used to it). I never could read Obj-C, due to lack of practice in the lang, and too much at-colon-dash-at going on. However, again it was probably just lack of familiarity, on paper at least, it has some nice features. -Swift PS: If you folks who care about C are interested and haven't done any coding a while, check out the features in C11. I'm loving things like quick_exit() and the static assertions. I also am hoping for a cogent Annex K bound checking interface once it hits gcc, though I have my own cheesy cheap-az solutions for that kind of stuff (a little thing I call a reflective reference counter).