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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