Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!netcom!ergo From: ergo@netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch) Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk Subject: Re: INFOWORLD, Smalltalk-80 4.0 Message-ID: <13482@netcom.UUCP> Date: 20 Sep 90 06:27:45 GMT References: <7696@milton.u.washington.edu> <26900004@sunc5> Reply-To: ergo@netcom.uucp Organization: UESPA Lines: 24 In <26900004@sunc5> voss@sunc5.cs.uiuc.edu writes: >True, I prefer systems which cost more than $5,000. ;-) >I've yet to meet a fellow Smalltalk hacker who prefers the baby systems! >Willing to use them -- YES, but honestly prefer them -- NO WAY. Oh well, if economics is such a trivial matter, why not just get a cray? Alas, programmers have to program for the real world. Then again, some of us like it that way. -- ergo@netcom.uucp Isaac Rabinovitch {apple,amdahl,claris}!netcom!ergo Silicon Valley, CA Collins's Law: If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything. Corollaries ("Rabinovitch's Rules of Sane Dialogue"): 1. Everybody who matters is stupid now and then. 2. If I'm being stupid, that's my problem. 3. If my being stupid makes you stupid, that's your problem. 4. If you think you're never stupid, boy are you stupid!