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by James Robertson.
Original Post: Your language features are my libraries
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I guess this is why, despite all of its faults, I have a lot of trouble giving up on Smalltalk. C#'s a good language, and .NET's a good framework; but I cannot help but feel that this isn't an issue of reinventing the wheel, as much as forgetting that we can provide programmers the tools to make their own types of locomotion.
Read the whole thing; he has some really good examples.