[Newbies] Re: Why hasn't Smalltalk been wildly accepted?

[bertmayo]

It doesn't help that blurbs like the following appear.  this is from  
the ACM TechNews for Aug 14, 2006 in the article "5 That Almost Made  
the List of Greatest Software":

"Another close runner up was Smalltalk, a major breakthrough to be  
sure, but one that has been eclipsed by Java's network-oriented  
structure that will have much greater staying power as the Internet  
age progresses."

I guess that it was just easier for the writer to describe Smalltalk  
as that tired, out-of-date stuff, rather than do a little research  
and discover that Seaside's continuation passing style is at the  
forefront of web server development, as described in the new O'Reilly  
book "Beyond Java".

   --Bert


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