Via Patrick Logan I ran across this from Ted Leung:

One of the points that I've been trying to make since I've gotten back in to the languages space is that a lot of what is happening in languages now is unpausing the nuclear winter that Java imposed on the programming language space. If you haven't been following this space for a while, you'd believe that all this dynamic language stuff was invented in the last 5 or 10 years or so.

Interestingly enough, "new = good" in this industry, so the impression that all of the dynamic language stuff is new might well be helpful :) Either way, there's a ton of fascinating stuff going on in Smalltalk and other dynamic systems - if you haven't wrapped your head around Seaside yet, now might be a good time to try. Head on over here for general info, and check out our videos here.

Interested in trying it all out? You can download Cincom Smalltalk, or - if Web Velocity interested you - send me email about the beta program.

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