Re:The Smalltalk Zoo
by dpraburaj on Friday December 18, 2020 @09:18AM
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Doesn't look like it although Alan Kay has expressed admiration for Lisp in many places.
> As for hype: Another motive for "smalltalk" was the practice at the time of naming operating, and other, systems (which hardly did anything) after mighty indo-european gods, such as Thor, Zeus, Odin, etc. I figured that if Smalltalk ever did something neat, then people would be pleasantly surprised.
> As for hype: Another motive for "smalltalk" was the practice at the time of naming operating, and other, systems (which hardly did anything) after mighty indo-european gods, such as Thor, Zeus, Odin, etc. I figured that if Smalltalk ever did something neat, then people would be pleasantly surprised.
http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/50.