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Re: member returns list


From: Pascal J. Bourguignon
Subject: Re: member returns list
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 04:03:53 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
> writes:
>
>> No Smalltalk -> no lisa -> no Macintosh -> no
>> MS-Windows and no NeXTSTEP (Apple would be dead by
>> now) -> MacOSX -> no iPad/iPhone.
>>
>> No Java -> no Android.
>>
>> Imagine if the bitmap displays were only used on
>> high end workstations for scientific data
>> representation, and in low-end PC for games.
>>
>> Most PC would still work with text screens.
>
> Did Smalltalk have any positive consequences as well?

Also, I didn't show the transitivities, but:
No Smalltalk -> no Objective-C -> no NeXTSTEP
No Lisp -> no Interface Builder -> no NeXTSTEP
No NeXTSTEP -> no MacOSX -> no iOS -> no iPad/iPhone.

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__                 http://www.informatimago.com/
“The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a
dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to
keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk


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