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A comment on Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981).

Re:Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981) by mbrodersen on Friday May 20, 2022 @09:10PM (#31454373)
> Storage Management: To be truly "object-oriented", a computer system must provide automatic storage management.

That’s a bad idea. A single one-size-fits-all storage solution that works for all problems in all scenarios doesn’t exist. There is a reason why we use many different storage solutions as technologies to solve problems.

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Re:Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981) by mbrodersen on Saturday May 21, 2022 @08:25PM (#31463627)
For the down voter(s): please enlighten us by giving us an example of a one-size-fits-all storage solution that works in all cases in all scenarios. Good luck with that.
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