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Learning new tricks
Sep. 2nd, 2005 11:16 amOne of my managers, Ric, is a SmallTalk evangalist. He can't really help it. He's an old school algorithms developer who never really got C, Prolog or Lisp. He doesn't like them and can't really use them effectively. Too much mucking around in the weeds, according to him. An ideas man with no real testbed. SmallTalk is the perfect language for him. He's very enthusiastic about introducing it to anyone and everyone who'll listen. He's been trying to convert me for years.
Now, he has a charge number and a project to enforce the indoctrination. See, SmallTalk is not production acceptable. Since Ric is doing all of his prototyping in it, we need translators to get his work into C or Java for everyone else to use. That's where I come in. Since UAV BattleLab has been gut shot, I'm short a project, I work well with Ric and I have a reputation for picking up new languages quickly. So off to the SmallTalk tutorials I go.
I feel like a biologist upon discovering a new slug. I can admire it for its form and function. I can admit that some parts of it are even strangly elegant. Still, my overall reaction is a slightly squicked "eh!".
Now, he has a charge number and a project to enforce the indoctrination. See, SmallTalk is not production acceptable. Since Ric is doing all of his prototyping in it, we need translators to get his work into C or Java for everyone else to use. That's where I come in. Since UAV BattleLab has been gut shot, I'm short a project, I work well with Ric and I have a reputation for picking up new languages quickly. So off to the SmallTalk tutorials I go.
I feel like a biologist upon discovering a new slug. I can admire it for its form and function. I can admit that some parts of it are even strangly elegant. Still, my overall reaction is a slightly squicked "eh!".
