Yanni Chiu wrote:
On 21/03/13 10:09 PM, Victor Stan wrote:
Traditionally and culturally, at first glance, forgive me if I'm stereotyping, but the smalltalk world seems to be heavily biased towards academic and large proprietary enterprise tooling and development environments. I think this is a reason (among others, from what I've read around) why ST hasn't picked up steam as the WWW grew up, the developers and tools were simply not geared toward such an environment.
The "why did Smalltalk not take off" debate is a regular occurrence on Smalltalk discussion forums.
There used to be Smalltalk implementations that targeted smaller companies. Digitalk Smalltalk was one of these. Unfortunately, at the critical WWW breakout moment, Digitalk was bought by ParcPlace, and eventually killed. Perhaps an independent Digitalk could have adapted as you would have expected.
You may find [1] an interesting historical perspective. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/711140/why-isnt-smalltalk-popular?page=2&... -ben