Dave,

I know that feeling.  You got a better response than I did.  I just received a load of blank looks, I really don't think they grasped the idea that there might be other languages than C, C++
or Perl (Java is pretty radical).

Tom

"David T. Lewis" wrote:

> Just to introduce a contrary view, I would describe myself as a middle          level manager at a large international corporation. I do Squeak in my           free time because it's fun.
>
> In the one and only case in my experience in which I advocated using
> Smalltalk for a significant project, the "technical" folks on the
> project voted the idea down in favor of Java, which they believed to
> have advantages in performance, type safety, and market acceptance.
> Draw what conclusions you like from this, but don't a priori assume
> that "management" is the source of all difficulties.
>
> Dave

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