On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:18 AM, Ralph Johnson
<johnson@cs.uiuc.edu> wrote:
Smalltalk didn't die. It's growth was killed. The dream of taking
over the world was killed.
+1. I use Smalltalk willingly, therefore it is not dead. It will only be dead when the last contributer stops enjoying it.
I believe the way to make Smalltalk popular is to make it do something that nobody else can that many people need. This is assuming that the basics are there: a good product, good documentation, support, etc.
I've been programming in Smalltalk since 1985. I remember 1995 as if
it were yesterday.