By bloid
via blogs.gartner.com
Published: Oct 11 2008 / 11:59
I’ve often referred to Smalltalk as the ‘Latin’ of modern OO languages. Most owe a tremendous debt to Smalltalk but the language itself has been relegated to a small niche of technology elites for several years now.
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Miloskov replied ago:
It is good we learn from Smalltalk, lots of good features as the GUI, MVC, Closures, and many more Ruby, Python, PHP, Java borrowed from it but right now smalltalk I'll call it legacy, As there still systems in Cobol running for 50 years. The GUI already changed, now we are in the Web Era not anymore Gui Desktop Era. PHP, Java, Python, etc, already they will stay with us for a long time. For example PHP 5.3 includes Closures and many more things that borrowed from smalltalk but it keeps the syntax mainstream and it is easy to use.
This kind of blogs are just for make Hypes and Fads. Smalltalk got their shot long time ago but it failed, I dont think it will comeback to the masses.
2c.
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