#ObjectSystem

2023-10-02

The problem with #Java isn't that it's trying to do too many things, not even remotely.

The problems started when they saw #Smalltalk's #ObjectSystem and thought "how can we keep only the bad parts of this and make something much worse?".

The memes about the completely absurd "enterprise Java" practically all flow from that initial flaw.

Jörg Preisendörferjpreisendoerfer
2023-01-15

@Seanleblanc

WRT Object System (#CLOS):

The seminal book ›The Art of the Metaobject protocol‹ (1991, ) by , & demonstrates & discusses many design patterns for |s with protocol, in which methods are not part of classes, due to , paradigms.

It also contributed much to .

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