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:
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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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