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Re:How learning Smalltalk can make you a better developer by qwertyuiop924 on Monday July 25, 2016 @06:59PM (#12162210)
And how am I supposed to learn all of that? ;).

Maybe there's a reason Smalltalk never caught on...

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Re:How learning Smalltalk can make you a better developer by gnaritas on Monday July 25, 2016 @08:36PM (#12162586)
> And how am I supposed to learn all of that? ;).

Those who want to learn, do.

> Maybe there's a reason Smalltalk never caught on...

There is, that wasn't it. The reason it didn't catch on was lack of a free version during the period of time it could have taken off. It cost a fortune and was competing with languages that were free to developers, Java took off instead.

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Re:How learning Smalltalk can make you a better developer by qwertyuiop924 on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @08:47AM (#12165199)
sheesh, I was kidding. I know the real reasons ST didn't catch on.
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Re:How learning Smalltalk can make you a better developer by horrido on Monday July 25, 2016 @09:32PM (#12162808)
There was, and it's explained here: https://medium.com/smalltalk-talk/why-aren-t-people-using-sm...
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