Re: Re: Re: "Obviously, You Will Need a Java Course..."

[merlyn]

Java has "primitive types" that cannot be subclassed nor extended.

Smalltalk has no such artificial distinction.

Java proponents claim that you must have primitive types to get decent performance. Odd, because Sun's Java VM itself is primarily written in Self, which has no primitive types (in fact, it doesn't even have classes!).

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker