Re:The Smalltalk Zoo
by gjvc on Friday December 18, 2020 @09:44AM
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This really is a potentially very misleading bit of uninformed speculation.
"LISP" gets its name from "list processor".
"Smalltalk" gets its name from the the fact that the language came from the Learning Research Group at Xerox PARC -- the "small" was thus meant as an acknowledgement of the study that how children learn was crucial to the design of the Smalltalk system, and the "talk" relates to the fact that objects "talk" to one other by messaging.
"LISP" gets its name from "list processor".
"Smalltalk" gets its name from the the fact that the language came from the Learning Research Group at Xerox PARC -- the "small" was thus meant as an acknowledgement of the study that how children learn was crucial to the design of the Smalltalk system, and the "talk" relates to the fact that objects "talk" to one other by messaging.