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by wvenable 3526 days ago
I did Smalltalk in school and once you peel away a few layers it doesn't feel like it was designed for humans at all. Perl is also said be designed for humans but takes a very different approach.
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What did you feel was bad about Smalltalk?

As for Perl, it was hacked together to automate some work Larry Walls was doing on BLACKER VPN at TRW.