• SubArcticTundra
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    1 year ago

    But it’s written in some oddball language called Squeak

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      Squeak is just a programming environment for Smalltalk, the language in which object-oriented programming was invented.

      If anything, it’s those languages that tried to bolt on object-oriented features to Algol that are the oddballs!