Grady Booch: "My absolute favorite language is Smalltalk....

David Faught dave_faught at yahoo.com
Mon Nov 25 14:22:22 UTC 2002


I took the liberty (so shoot me!) of responding to the
editor about this.  Here is the reply that I got:
-------------------
The reader is perfectly correct in observing that
Smalltalk has indeed survived...perhaps I should have
said "I wish Smalltalk had flourished."

I'm quite familiar with Squeak, and do agree that it's
a Great Thing. However, despite its presence, and
despite its use in some pockets of the software
development space, reality is that the use of
Smalltalk/Squeak is simply not what it was in the
heyday of the language. The existence of a veritable
cacophony of languages - from C++ to Java to C# to all
the various scripting languages - plus the weight
behind J2EE and .NET mean that Smalltalk/Squeak is,
unfortunately, a niche language.

I wish it were not so. 

Grady 

> -----Original Message----- 
> From: aweber at cmp.com [mailto:aweber at cmp.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 20:58 
> To: Booch, Grady 
> Subject: Fwd: FEEDBACK, Software Development
magazine 
> 
> 
> Grady, 
> 
> Care to respond? 
> 
> --Alexa 
> 
>                       dfaught at footlock 
>                       er.com                  
To:      aweber at cmp.com 
>                                                cc: 
>                       11/19/2002 12:05         bcc: 
>                       PM                      
Subject: FEEDBACK, Software 
> Development magazine 
> 
> In the December 2002 "My Favorite Things" article,
Grady Booch says "My 
> absolute favorite language is Smalltalk.  I wish it
had survived."  He 
> should take a look at Squeak at
http://www.squeak.org and see how alive 
> Smalltalk really is! 


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