A friend of mine was at a conference this past week
and also heard Grady say that Smalltalk was still
his favorite language.  He then asked for all the
Smalltalkers to raise their hands. In a crowd of
300+ people, two people raised their hands.



Monday, November 25, 2002, 9:22:22 AM, you wrote:

> 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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