Alexandre,

Thank you for this email.  This morning (I am also at OOPSLA) I was
thinking of how often I had heard positive mentions of Smalltalk during
the sessions this week and although most of the Digitalk, PPD and
ObjectShare Smalltalkers have moved into other areas of OO, they all
talk about their positive roots in Smalltalk.  I have also had many
positive conversations with attendees regarding Smalltalk and the future
of Smalltalk.

Thank you again!

Suzanne

Suzanne M. Fortman
Cincom Systems, Inc.
Smalltalk STAR Team
Office: 949-722-8928
Mobile: 949-933-0055
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Subject: [Esug-list] Smalltalk at oopsla

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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