It doesn't help that blurbs like the following appear. this is from the ACM TechNews for Aug 14, 2006 in the article "5 That Almost Made the List of Greatest Software":
"Another close runner up was Smalltalk, a major breakthrough to be sure, but one that has been eclipsed by Java's network-oriented structure that will have much greater staying power as the Internet age progresses."
I guess that it was just easier for the writer to describe Smalltalk as that tired, out-of-date stuff, rather than do a little research and discover that Seaside's continuation passing style is at the forefront of web server development, as described in the new O'Reilly book "Beyond Java".
--Bert
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