I have thought long and hard about why Smalltalk failed and have had numerous discussions with people and the general ideas are: * poor marketing * expensive,

I have thought long and hard about why Smalltalk failed and have had numerous discussions with people and the general ideas are: * poor marketing * expensive, closed license * not enough effort put in to tooling But almost everyone agrees that there is a LOT that was lost when Smalltalk didn't take over the marketplace... the point is, it wasn't because they didn't go with the concept of a filesystem...