Yanni Chiu wrote:
On 21/03/13 10:09 PM, Victor Stan wrote:
Traditionally and culturally, at first glance, forgive me if I'm
stereotyping, but the smalltalk world seems to be heavily biased towards
academic and large proprietary enterprise tooling and development
environments. I think this is a reason (among others, from what I've
read around) why ST hasn't picked up steam as the WWW grew up, the
developers and tools were simply not geared toward such an environment.
The "why did Smalltalk not take off" debate is a regular occurrence on
Smalltalk discussion forums.
There used to be Smalltalk implementations that targeted smaller
companies. Digitalk Smalltalk was one of these. Unfortunately, at the
critical WWW breakout moment, Digitalk was bought by ParcPlace, and
eventually killed. Perhaps an independent Digitalk could have adapted
as you would have expected.
You may find [1] an interesting historical perspective.
[1]
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/711140/why-isnt-smalltalk-popular?page=2&tab=votes#tab-top
-ben
