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Original Post: Smalltalk advocay, Java "normalcy"?
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I love the fact that advocating Java in a vociferous way is pegged as normal - but being a Smalltalk (or Lisp, etc) advocate gets you labeled as a nut case:
James Robertson, smalltalk nut case and long-time Java detractor in c.l.j.a. (then again, I noticed most smalltalk nutjobs are Java detractors - it must come with the territory)....
Question the status quo, and there's just no end to how much you'll be called nuts. Interesting side point - most of the posters in c.j.l.a. who come at things from a Smalltalk viewpoint have used Java and other statically typed languages; while most of the Java folks arguing back haven't used any dynamic language.
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