Too bad JPMorgan didn't stick with Smalltalk. It seems that most of the big success stories come from the 1990s and perhaps early 2000s. It would be *real nice* to have a big success story from the last 10 years; otherwise, it's hard to counter the notion that Smalltalk is hardly used any more.
Given what I have to work with, I could only come up with this <https://medium.com/smalltalk-talk/who-uses-smalltalk-c6fdaa6319a> . It's a little apologetic, but what can I do? Esteban A. Maringolo wrote > 2015-12-14 13:57 GMT-03:00 horrido < > horrido.hobbies@ > >: >> Wow, the article about JPMorgan is extremely thin in terms of details! >> Most >> of it is just marketing-speak. It's hard to write a meaningful piece with >> so >> little content. >> >> Is there anything else that provides substantial content??? > > JP Morgan tried to replace most of their Smalltalk code since then, > and after many failed attempts they migrated most of the Kapital > system to Python, except for the exotics derivatives software, they > failed on every attempt. It seems to be too complex and very well > solved with the current implementation in Smalltalk. > > JPMC have thousands of developers and ~100 of them develop with > Smalltalk on a VisualWorks+GemBuilder+GemStone/S software. > > Regards! > > Esteban A. Maringolo -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/PharoJVM-tp4866633p4867050.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
