Quote: every system part in Smalltalk has the same power as the whole

Quote: all parts of a system should work similarly since any difference requires additional effort to control [»ingaDH8_1981a]

Quote: Self emphasizes concreteness, uniformity, and flexibility: program by copy-and-modify, uniform objects and messages, flexible slot structure [»smitRB10_1995]

Quote: the entire Self environment is available for direct deconstruction or modification; e.g., add a resize button to a simulation from the resize entry on a menu [»smitRB10_1995]

Quote: a system should be built with a minimum set of unchangeable, generalized parts in a uniform framework [»ingaDH8_1981a]

Quote: everything in Self is an object, and an object consists of named slots [»smitRB10_1995]

Quote: for transformations, want the same language for specification, procedures, and assembly code; otherwise limits usefulness [»boylJM5_1999]

Quote: the less needed to explain a language feature, the better its design [»demeA_1978]

Quote: a regular language has many formal descriptions [»hoarCA2_1974]

Quote: original goal for ML was a natural-like language for all computer interaction [»spooCR4_1986]

Quote: instead of concentrating on semantic features, ML seeks a uniform syntactic approach for expressing any semantics [»spooCR4_1986]

Quote: a complete language does not depend on other languages for its semantics [»backJ_1973, OK]

Quote: prototypes are especially helpful for user-interface programming; use the same tools to edit objects and their definitions [»smitWR10_1995]

Quote: unify programming and command languages by removing distinctions between programs, procedures, files and variables [»heerJ4_1985]

Quote: if programming and command languages are unified then calling a procedure is the same as running a program [»heerJ4_1985]

Quote: Forth's application oriented vocabulary removes the need for interfaces to other languages [»rathED10_1976]

Quote: a unified programming and command language needs to handle integers, texts, and directories; both small and large scale data [»heerJ4_1985]

Quote: .NET's common language specification (CLS) is a subset of its type system; unique, Unicode names, no static and instance methods or fields, properties, events, predefined types, closed

Quote: a shared type system is necessary to integrate multiple languages [»hamiJ2_2003]

Quote: a language should allow control below the level of Pascal-like languages [»shawM3_1980]

Quote: CLR does not specify method overloading; compiler explicitly specifies whether a method is virtual, non-virtual, or new [»hamiJ2_2003]

Quote: define global directives with the same effect on many types of aggregates [»hallJC5_1974]

Quote: there should be a single language for all aspects of software engineering from initial conception to use [»rossDT_1970]

Quote: idiosyncratic interfaces are not usable for widely reusable components and generic programming; interfaces should be obvious and consistently applied [»dehnJC4_1998]

Quote: producing valid systems is a domain dependent activity [»blumBI8_1985]