<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;">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":</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;">"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."</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;">I guess that it was just easier for the writer to describe Smalltalk as that tired, out-of-date stuff, rather than do a little research and discover that Seaside's continuation passing style is at the forefront of web server development, as described in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".</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"> --Bert</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></P></BODY></HTML>