<div dir="ltr">Back in the late '80 everyone was waiting for Smalltalk, the exemplar object-programming language. <div><br></div><div>If you want to know "what happened to Smalltalk" then google the preceding quoted text. But that was then</div><div><br></div><div>This is now: the programming community has moved on to yet another panacea -- functional programming, one that can take advantage of modern multi-core processors, something for which Smalltalk, with its multitude of state variables, was ill-suited.</div><div><br></div><div>That's the short story.</div><div><br></div><div>Functional is interesting. But having to rethink/restructure every problem for it might have you asking, "I have to do all THAT to do what I want to do?"</div><div><br></div><div>I wonder if anyone is working on a Smalltalk based functional programming language as Richard Hickey was working on a Lisp based functional programming language.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clojure">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clojure</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Just the other day I was wishing for a Clojure with mutable collections.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Joseph Alotta <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joseph.alotta@gmail.com" target="_blank">joseph.alotta@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">>
<br>> 1. The community seems TINY for such a cool project. At this point it seems to mainly consist of people in academics and "old-timers" that have stuck around since a time when Squeak was more popular. Is this correct or am I maybe not looking in the right places?
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<br>> It seems a shame if such an amazing project were to die out because of lack of popularity, considering all the possibilities that this level of intractability with the programming environment enables.
<br><br>I’m trying to change that. I’ve started a meetup group in the Chicago area for learning Squeak. I am hoping to have a lot of young people get interested in it.
<br><br>I have programmed in many languages and I find smalltalk to be the easiest to read and understand. I’ve written code in come languages, that 6 months later was completely foreign to me. I couldn’t remember what I was thinking when I wrote it, nor even if I wrote it.
<br><br>With smalltalk, I don’t find that. I actually enjoy programming.
<br><br>Sincerely,
<br><br>Joe.
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