On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:55:24 +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> Where did you hear that?

Yes, interesting question :)

FWIW in 2006 I found that Google advertises that using their own system

- http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=smalltalk&gl=US

It' still there, refresh you browser until you can see one of their  
Smalltalk ads like this one

  Smalltalk at Google?
  Dig SmallTalk & object oriented
  design? Get a Java XP job at Google
  www.google.com/jobs/

/Klaus

> - Bert -
>
> On 21.11.2008, at 10:47, Steven W Riggins wrote:
>
>> I heard that google hired developers with deep Smalltalk  
>> experience........
>>
>> On Nov 21, 2008, at 12:28 AM, Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:02:47 +0100, Mark Volkmann <mark at ociweb.com>  
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't have a lot of experience with Smalltalk yet, but I really  
>>>> love what I've seen so far.
>>>>
>>>> I'm curious what experienced Smalltalkers see as some of the reasons  
>>>> why it doesn't attract more attention.
>>>
>>> Me thinks that the Smalltalk community is healthy and vibrant--it is  
>>> "just" a community form one would not expect for Ruby or Python or  
>>> Perl, etc. To get impression of my impression take a look at what  
>>> *actually* happened during the *recent* months:
>>>
>>> - Exupery (native x86 methods) powers Huemul
>>> - Seaside (web++ framework++) powers GLASS
>>> - Hydra (multiple parallel .images) powers Croquet .images
>>> - Google hires developers with deep Smalltalk experience
>>> - two more gods to be worshipped in the VM temple ;)
>>> - Squeak powers NewSpeak
>>> - new book Squeak by Example (creative commons license)
>>> - port of OpenDBX to Squeak (still not on windoze)
>>> - port of Squeak/VM to "another" smartphone platform ;)
>>> - DrGeo made it to the XO (OLPC)
>>> - fresh new subcommunity Pharo
>>> - attempt? to port Moose (world class sw analysis) to Squeak
>>> - Google hires developers with deep Smalltalk experience
>>> - Squeak web site migrated to/powered by Aida/Web Squeak
>>> - 4 (four) projects run through 2008's Goggle Summer of Code
>>> - the "everybody needs it" Safara from GSoC as yet not in mainstream
>>> - the "everybody needs it" Squeak GTK from GSoC as yet not in  
>>> mainstream
>>> - IBM builds Smalltalk IDE inside Eclipse
>>> - Google hires developers with deep Smalltalk experience
>>> - ESUG 2008 conference draws more attendands than ever
>>>
>>> That list is of course incomplete, for example one wants to add the  
>>> many noobs who joined #squeak and the beginners mailing list.
>>>
>>> I do not think that *soo* much is holding back Smalltalk ;)
>>>
>>> /Klaus