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Re:The evolution of Smalltalk: from Smalltalk-72 through Squ... by philipswood on Thursday June 17, 2021 @10:58AM (#27540266)
I think there is a deep appeal to the languages that have one clear simple abstraction of abstraction.

Lisp - everything is a function

Smalltalk - everything is an object passing messages to other objects

Forth - everything is a word operand operating on a stack

Prolog - everything is terms and relations

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Re:The evolution of Smalltalk: from Smalltalk-72 through Squ... by yesenadam on Thursday June 17, 2021 @02:16PM (#27542655)
Yeah, they tend to be the ones that most "affect the way you think about programming"! And inspire the most ardent love/devotion. The beauty of simplicity.
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