Origin of the name Smalltalk?

Stewart stingray at paradise.net.nz
Thu Aug 9 11:40:21 UTC 2001


Thanks for satisfying a longterm curiosity - great name anyway (regardless of
how it's spelt!)

On Thu, 09 Aug 2001,
you 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.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alan
> 
> --------
> 
> At 2:17 PM +1200 8/9/01, Stewart MacLean wrote:
> >This is probably common knowledge (as is the spelling!), but I've 
> >heard that the name Smalltalk originated from:
> >
> >1) It was a language designed with children in mind
> >2) That is what it evoked as people talked about the new OO concepts 
> >at cocktail parties in the early buzzy development years
> >
> >I suspect it was 1)?
> 
> 
> --





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