The idea of using those things has a common origin in the hardware of a machine called the Burroughs B5000 from the early 1960s, which the establishment hated...The problem was that the DP managers didn’t want to learn new ways of computing, or even how to compute. IBM realized that and Burroughs didn’t.
A good summary of many of the cultural impedance mismatches of Smalltalk. Even today, Smalltalk is weird. However, many of the things developed there now have widespread traction. Java, Python, Ruby, .Net -- these communities have adopted many of the great things from the Smalltalk world.
A good summary of many of the cultural impedance mismatches of Smalltalk. Even today, Smalltalk is weird. However, many of the things developed there now have widespread traction. Java, Python, Ruby, .Net -- these communities have adopted many of the great things from the Smalltalk world.