Grady Booch: "My absolute favorite language is Smalltalk....
Donald MacQueen
dmacq at erols.com
Mon Nov 25 14:00:47 UTC 2002
A friend of mine was at a conference this past week
and also heard Grady say that Smalltalk was still
his favorite language. He then asked for all the
Smalltalkers to raise their hands. In a crowd of
300+ people, two people raised their hands.
Monday, November 25, 2002, 9:22:22 AM, you wrote:
> I took the liberty (so shoot me!) of responding to the
> editor about this. Here is the reply that I got:
> -------------------
> The reader is perfectly correct in observing that
> Smalltalk has indeed survived...perhaps I should have
> said "I wish Smalltalk had flourished."
> I'm quite familiar with Squeak, and do agree that it's
> a Great Thing. However, despite its presence, and
> despite its use in some pockets of the software
> development space, reality is that the use of
> Smalltalk/Squeak is simply not what it was in the
> heyday of the language. The existence of a veritable
> cacophony of languages - from C++ to Java to C# to all
> the various scripting languages - plus the weight
> behind J2EE and .NET mean that Smalltalk/Squeak is,
> unfortunately, a niche language.
> I wish it were not so.
> Grady
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: aweber at cmp.com [mailto:aweber at cmp.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 20:58
>> To: Booch, Grady
>> Subject: Fwd: FEEDBACK, Software Development
> magazine
>>
>>
>> Grady,
>>
>> Care to respond?
>>
>> --Alexa
>>
>> dfaught at footlock
>> er.com
> To: aweber at cmp.com
>> cc:
>> 11/19/2002 12:05 bcc:
>> PM
> Subject: FEEDBACK, Software
>> Development magazine
>>
>> In the December 2002 "My Favorite Things" article,
> Grady Booch says "My
>> absolute favorite language is Smalltalk. I wish it
> had survived." He
>> should take a look at Squeak at
> http://www.squeak.org and see how alive
>> Smalltalk really is!
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Donald
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