> Ralph Johnson wrote,
>
> There have been a number of Smalltalk projects with dozens, sometimes
> hundreds, of people on them.  None have been successful.  On large
> projects, politics and management issues overwhelm technical decisions
> and the value of Smalltalk gets lost.

Of course, "none" is an absolute, so it is easily disproven. I've been 
on two large systems written in Smalltalk and both were incredibly 
successful. One was a banking recordkeeping system (stock trading) and 
the other ran the policyholder information for a large insurance carrier 
(including a web application to process changes online back in 98). Both 
of these systems had over 50 developers. Note that both used small teams 
(6-12) to develop parts of the application. The insurance carrier used 
Smalltalk in a number of other mission critical applications, each with 
development teams around 40-60.