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I dabbled in SmallTalk for a biz app in mid 90's but it was too slow so abandoned. The language was the best I have used. I cannot help but think if it came out today with good support for GUI widgets on each platform that it would take off like wild fire. Persistent classes/objects modifying themselves (what Kay calls Late-Binding) talking over a mesh network. For example, a group of objects may notice they are doing the same over and over and decide to create a new object to handle the job more efficiently. JVM's do some of this now but we are long ways off from true interaction and development.
Great text. Great ideas by a person who built computer science and applied software concepts. Just one point: Algol 68 is not mentionned as a language with a meta-language.
Really great! Congrats Stuart.
love it.
Fantastic conversation.
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