Aug 22, 2017 · 1 min read
Yes indeed. Richard has hit the mark again with this point. The unfortunate aspect is that the leadership in business technology still delegates their technology strategy decisions to “experts” who are victims of the popularity school of software development. I worked with Smalltalk briefly in grad school back in the 90’s and was immediately taken with it, but even getting a copy to learn with was very expensive and required what was then very expensive hardware. It was ahead of its time. There is no excuse today for that. Perhaps it is time to make the turn in the S curve before it becomes a “figure eight”. Perhaps Smalltalk was the 6th generation language and many of us missed it…