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Re:Why I don’t like Dynamic Typing by andrewl on Saturday February 25, 2012 @11:26AM (#3633232)
...what we'd really want to see is a large successful enterprise system built on Smalltalk to serve as an instructive example. To my knowledge no such system exists...

Does such a system exist to anybody's knowledge? I've heard that there's a good bit of Smalltalk on Wall Street, but companies don't like to advertise it because it's a competitive advantage.

Re:Why I don’t like Dynamic Typing by igouy on Saturday February 25, 2012 @01:32PM (#3633500)
“We have estimated that if we had built Kapital in another language such as Java, we would require at least three times the amount of resources.”

http://www.google.com/search?q=kapital+smalltalk