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Once again: the post does not even mention either Objective-C or Smalltalk and is certainly not in the least bit about comparing those two.
Yet you claim that that is what the post is about. How is that possible?
In the comments there is also a reference to a paper published later that claimed proof of safety benefits, only to be utterly debunked shortly after (the paper).
https://2019.splashcon.org/details/splash-2019-oopsla/75/On-the-Impact-of-Programming-Languages-on-Code-Quality
It looks like you're "no-true-scotsman"-ing this.
Once again: the post does not even mention either Objective-C or Smalltalk and is certainly not in the least bit about comparing those two.
Yet you claim that that is what the post is about. How is that possible?
In the comments there is also a reference to a paper published later that claimed proof of safety benefits, only to be utterly debunked shortly after (the paper).
https://2019.splashcon.org/details/splash-2019-oopsla/75/On-the-Impact-of-Programming-Languages-on-Code-Quality
It looks like you're "no-true-scotsman"-ing this.