As in the Linux world, where there are many “distros,” in the Smalltalk world, there are many “dialects.”
Recently, Alan Kay led me to watch this:
The hot air balloon motif has followed Smalltalk since 1981. It is thus apropos that in…
Python is a relatively nice, friendly programming language. I don’t have any…
The question often comes up about who uses Smalltalk, the implication being that Smalltalk is such an obscure language that…
I hear a common refrain in the IT industry that for extremely large software projects (e.g., greater than 100,000 lines of…
I don’t understand people today. They seem so brittle and inflexible, unwilling to open their…
Pharo is the best representative of Smalltalk today. It is Open Source and free for all to use. It has the most active…
There are two somewhat different approaches to using Smalltalk for the web. The first is Amber, which is more than four years…
It used to be that Smalltalk’s competition came from Java and Ruby. Java, because it took away Smalltalk’s future by…
