Doesn't look like it although Alan Kay has expressed admiration for Lisp in many places. > As for hype: Another motive for "smalltalk" was the practice at the

Doesn't look like it although Alan Kay has expressed admiration for Lisp in many places. > As for hype: Another motive for "smalltalk" was the practice at the time of naming operating, and other, systems (which hardly did anything) after mighty indo-european gods, such as Thor, Zeus, Odin, etc. I figured that if Smalltalk ever did something neat, then people would be pleasantly surprised. http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/50 http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/50.