On Sunday 24 November 2002 06:44 am, Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
> SD: Is there a language that you turn to time and again?
>
> Grady Booch: [...] My absolute favorite language is Smalltalk. I
> wish it had survived.

Spoken by someone whose company has dropped support for Smalltalk in 
their flagship UML editor product (Rational Rose). The Smalltalk 
support they'd had in prior versions was done by The Object People 
(as I recall).

My impression of Rational overall (after talking with Grady and with 
Jim Rumbaugh at OOPSLA '97) is that they're coming from a C++ 
background, and have to sell to the Java people as well. They also 
support VB and Ada. Smalltalk just doesn't register.

Rumbaugh, for instance, had never heard of the concept of "class 
extensions". And, of course, UML gives no way to represent them. The 
UML package contains classes only (no loose methods).

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