<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:18 AM, Ralph Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnson@cs.uiuc.edu">johnson@cs.uiuc.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Smalltalk didn't die. It's growth was killed. The dream of taking<br>
over the world was killed.</blockquote><br><div><br>+1. I use Smalltalk willingly, therefore it is not dead. It will only be dead when the last contributer stops enjoying it.<br><br>I believe the way to make Smalltalk popular is to make it do something that nobody else can that many people need. This is assuming that the basics are there: a good product, good documentation, support, etc.<br>
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I've been programming in Smalltalk since 1985. I remember 1995 as if<br>
it were yesterday.<br>
<br></blockquote></div><br>In 1985, some of the people in this community didn't exist! <br><br>Gulik.<br><br>-- <br><a href="http://gulik.pbwiki.com/">http://gulik.pbwiki.com/</a><br>