> Smalltalk had always been a primarily academic language There was quite a hype in the nineties with many enterprise applications based on Smalltalk; my first

> Smalltalk had always been a primarily academic language There was quite a hype in the nineties with many enterprise applications based on Smalltalk; my first contact with Smalltalk was in a commercial, not an academic setting; most of it blew away when cheap, fast (HotSpot) Java became available. > Ruby, Python, Java, C#, etc, all owe a great deal to Smalltalk. That's a bit too optimistic. E.g. Python is not a descentent of Smalltalk (see e.g. http://python-history.blogspot.com/2013/10/ http://python-history.blogspot.com/2013/10/), neither is Java (see e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccRtIdlTqlU&feature=youtu.be&t=2448 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccRtIdlTqlU&feature=youtu.be...). C# is also rather a brain child of Java and C++ than of Smalltalk.