The Evolution of Smalltalk from Smalltalk-72 to Squeak [video]

Re:The Evolution of Smalltalk from Smalltalk-72 to Squeak [v... by jecel on Friday August 27, 2021 @10:42PM (#28335161)

Some people are very picky and only accept Smalltalk-80 as "Smalltalk". Of course, that would make Smalltalk-72, -74, -76 and even -78 not Smalltalk, which would be very odd.

I, on the other hand, consider Self and Slate to be good examples of Smalltalk.

Beyond any technical discussions there is the marketing issue. Smalltalk's reputation took a major hit in the 1990s with the rise of Java (from the "language of the future that doesn't run on the computers you have, yet" it became "a failed language of the past") and association with the name can hurt a project in some cases.

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Re:The Evolution of Smalltalk from Smalltalk-72 to Squeak [v... by pjmlp on Saturday August 28, 2021 @07:52AM (#28337355)

I did not help that major Smalltalk vendors like IBM, decided to replace their Smalltalk product line with Java ones.

Eclipse grew out from Visual Age series.

Or that Sun repurposed Strongtalk for Hotspot.

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