The context seem to be a lisper who want to assert that Smalltalk has grown from Lisp, which seem to be only partially true. Secondly there seem to be a slight

The context seem to be a lisper who want to assert that Smalltalk has grown from Lisp, which seem to be only partially true. Secondly there seem to be a slight misunderstanding - Smalltalk was influenced by biological concept according to Kay, while the poster he replies just denies that Smalltalk has its origin i biology - I would assume he meant used for research by biologist, which to me is something rather different than inspired by biological metaphors. So basically different perspectives and misunderstandings escalate into a total unnecessary flamewar. What else is new.