I do not think the article provides the correct explanation. I'm sure, most of the readers do not use Smalltalk, and they have their own (straightforward) reaso

I do not think the article provides the correct explanation. I'm sure, most of the readers do not use Smalltalk, and they have their own (straightforward) reasons for that. Most probably, why should they care about an old, outmoded, strange and almost dead language? You cannot sell a dead horse. It is a pity. I could name dozens of its great ideas that are still waiting to be re-invented by the mainstream languages of today.