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Smalltalk: The Software Industry's Greatest Failure

• mrkeen 5mo ago
  This is an ill-informed rant. The key idea is that software dev sucks for you today, because Smalltalk wasn't good.
  • parallelminds 5mo ago
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• rondaerth92 5mo ago
  The problem with Smalltalk was always the pride and ego of the leaders of their community
  • igouy 5mo ago
    So there were no problems with the technology? So "the pride and ego" was grander than any other tech leaders?
• Rochus 5mo ago
  I always wondered why "the entire software industry" is a failure. Now we know it was because variables in Smalltalk are not first-class objects (plus some other essential issues). The comment section of the post is revealing as well; the author responds to every pushback with insults. Well then.
  • igouy 5mo ago
    Strange that "the software crisis" preceded Smalltalk.
    • Rochus 5mo ago
      It even preceded "software".