David Vallner wrote on 2/5/2006 7:07 PM:

> 1. Don't use lol. Never. Ever. It's not ponctuation, it's not a standalone 
> sentence, it's not even a proper word, for cripes sake.

lol

that's like telling people not to top post anymore. or telling people
about their spelling checker.

sorry. lol. couldn't resist. at least i got my poncuation right. :)

and to keep this even remotely on topic:

> 2. The Smalltalk image-based paradigm was comfortable, 

not to those of us who cut our teeth on turbo pascal v3.0. i tried to
get into oberon (on dos way back when) which had a similar feel to a
smalltalk environment. i guess some people latch right on to it and
feel at home, but most people didn't and neither did the industry...


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