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Why the static OO guys seem to think runtime inspection, "duck typing" and meta programming is something newfangled and scary is beyond me.

Java dragged C++ kicking and screaming to the easy half of Lisp, circa 1972.

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by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jul 07, 2008 at 05:53 UTC

    Now that should someday be a chapter's introductory quote in a programming book yet to be written.

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