Hello,

Today is the last day of oopsla. It was a really cool surprise to see  
how many times Smalltalk was cited during talks and how many  
compliments it obtained. Here some particular moment I enjoyed:
     - Before the keynote of Mary Beth, James Noble said something  
like: "Eclipse tries to achieve something that Smalltalk did 20 years  
ago, and remains still behind". The room was completely full at that  
time.
     - The room where the Croquet workshop hold was completely full,  
even if the organization was a bit shaky (please, do not take it  
bad :-), this was really cool! The room was completely full, and it  
did not contains only smalltalkers, but also people who were just  
curious and wanted to learn more.
     - David Reed gave a talk on Croquet, and the room was really  
big, and was completely full.
     - Roel Wuyts was chair of the Symposium on Dynamic Languages.  
And again, the room was too small to contain all the attendees :-)  
Especially for the very last talk given by Brian Foote; the doors had  
to left open in order to make people standing  outside able to listen.
     - Martin McClure organized a Squeak BOF. That was really cool.  
Again, some people came here just to learn more about squeak/smalltalk.

I was also delighted to see that some technical presentations in the  
research tracks shown DrScheme into action. Kathryn did a demo using  
DrScheme, and it was really cool!

Also, I felt that Smalltalk had more attention than Ruby and other  
Python. This oopsla was a wonderful opportunity to meet people in real.

Keep going Smalltalkers! We have cool things to show, and we have to  
show them!
I would like to give big hands to Roel and Martin to have organized  
their events.

Cheers,
Alexandre
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