Thanks. The presentation mentioned in the article is at:<br><br><a href="http://www.heeg.de/downloads/vortraege/Vortrag_Toronto_2006/Vortrag_Toronto2006_GeorgHeeg.pdf">http://www.heeg.de/downloads/vortraege/Vortrag_Toronto_2006/Vortrag_Toronto2006_GeorgHeeg.pdf
</a><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Klaus D. Witzel</b> <<a href="mailto:klaus.witzel@cobss.com">klaus.witzel@cobss.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Quote:<br>Jonah Group principal consultant Jeremy Chan cannot verify a resurgence in<br>the use of the Smalltalk object-oriented language as indicated by Georg<br>Heeg at the recent Smalltalk Solutions Conference, noting that none of his
<br>company's customer requests exhibit a desire for Smalltalk. Chan writes<br>that Smalltalk's status as a OO language does not really provide an<br>explanation of why it might be superior to other OO languages, and why,
<br>given such alleged superiority, it has been displaced by the likes of Java<br>and C# as the most preferred language for enterprises in the last decade.<br>"This is the essence of the Smalltalk Paradox," Chan says. The author
<br>reasons that developers may have difficulty relating Smalltalk's<br>programming concepts, presented by defining the language's five principal<br>vocabulary terms (object, message, class, instance, and method), to<br>something else they already know. The vocabulary defines four rules of the
<br>language: All things are objects; all objects represent instances of some<br>class; objects perform tasks by sending messages; and messages are<br>deployed via methods. Chan attributes Smalltalk's lack of popularity to
<br>several factors, including the defensive posture Smalltalk developers<br>assume when the language's superiority is questioned, and the absence of a<br>major industry backer with the marketing muscle to facilitate Smalltalk's
<br>mainstream penetration. The author believes the Smalltalk community would<br>receive a significant boost by attracting outsiders and discussing<br>collaboration.<br>Unquote.<br><br>- <a href="http://www.ddj.com/dept/architect/187200914">
http://www.ddj.com/dept/architect/187200914</a><br><br>/Klaus<br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>