Smalltalk was named such as Alan Kay (https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/50 https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/50) > had mentioned to someone that the "prose" of then

Smalltalk was named such as Alan Kay (https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/50 https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/50) > had mentioned to someone that the "prose" of then current programming languages was lower than a cocktail party conversation, and that great progress would have been made if we could even get to the level of making "smalltalk".