Alan Kay is a particularly odd case — he's had to start over with Smalltalk half a dozen times because it was too successful. Because people from elementary sc

Alan Kay is a particularly odd case — he's had to start over with Smalltalk half a dozen times because it was too successful. Because people from elementary schoolkids to Disney to IBM were invested in it, he couldn't keep iterating. He had to leave it to them for it to rot in stasis, and go off to start over again with a new community until it happened again.