I doubt it. C++ syntax is all of: bizarre, hideous, and ambiguous and yet it never limited C++ because at the end of the day C++ was extremely practical. Smallt

I doubt it. C++ syntax is all of: bizarre, hideous, and ambiguous and yet it never limited C++ because at the end of the day C++ was extremely practical. Smalltalk didn't take off (Im not going to say died because it's not dead) because the development tools were expensive and the runtime was frequently not fast enough and you needed a very powerful for its time computer to use it. Also I think most super popular languages have a niche. Whether its webapps, text processing, low level, etc. Smalltalk lived in its own world and it was hard to integrate with the OS and other capabilities of the system, (try writing a wrapper for like OpenGL or other libraries for example) and I think that somewhat prevented it from finding a great niche to thrive in.