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After watching a few Alan Kay talks where he pines for Smalltalk, I happened to watch this Robert Martin talk "What killed Smalltalk could kill Ruby". https://
by duncanawoods 11y ago
After watching a few Alan Kay talks where he pines for Smalltalk, I happened to watch this Robert Martin talk "What killed Smalltalk could kill Ruby".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX3iRjKj7C0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX3iRjKj7C0
The tldw reasons he gives for why Smalltalk died:
- too easy to make a mess where adding complexity would be punished late.
- arrogance - community isolated itself from the world and did not address common industry needs
- commercial only - alternative free languages dominated
- vixen99 11y agoMaybe related to your third reason, as previously noted, IT-related book publisher and seller O'Reilly appears (open to correction) not to offer one single book about Pharo or Smalltalk.
- davelnewton 11y agoOTOH, there are a bunch of books out for Squeak, and most old Smalltalk books are still very relevant. (And I'd argue some of the best old Smalltalk books are required reading for people that don't work in Smalltalk.) Re; Pharo, yeah, there's only a few self-published books.
- noblethrasher 11y agoI don't recall Alan Kay pining specifically for Smalltalk; mostly he just agitates for a world in which people at least understand the big ideas behind the original articulation of OOP. In fact, Kay tried to kill Smalltalk way back in the 70s[1]. [1]: http://mythz.servicestack.net/blog/2013/02/27/the-deep-insights-of-alan-kay/ http://mythz.servicestack.net/blog/2013/02/27/the-deep-insig...