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Re:No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers by saltminer on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @01:26PM (#20517456)
>1+2*3=9

I think this is a failure of Smalltalk, not OOP. I tried it in Ruby and Python (languages where everything is an object), both return 7.

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Re:No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers by arendtio on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @03:46PM (#20568423)
You could certainly see it that way, but I found that it is a good example to illustrate the intention of having a very simple syntax and processing logic (up to the point where arithmetic expressions are not what you expect them to be).
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