Origin of the name Smalltalk?
Leandro Caniglia
caniglia at dm.uba.ar
Thu Aug 9 02:29:07 UTC 2001
Alan Kay <Alan.Kay at squeakland.org> wrote:
> Actually both -- and right at the same time (the second one may have
> been a nanosecond earlier). In those days lots of systems were named
> after various gods but hardly did anything. My impulse was to have a
> modest name so that anything good about the system would be a
> pleasant surprise.
You failed. The system was so good that its name wasn't
modest anymore ;-)
/Leandro
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