>>I suspect it was performance, cruft, and aesthetics… In my experience (admittedly mostly dealing with IBM and IBM-sanctioned vendors) a typical Smalltalk demo

>>I suspect it was performance, cruft, and aesthetics… In my experience (admittedly mostly dealing with IBM and IBM-sanctioned vendors) a typical Smalltalk demo was a program that ran 10x slower than VB on a computer with twice as much memory…<< So incompetent programmers ?