Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:23:36 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: > yigal chripun wrote: >> Have you ever actually used Smalltalk?? I have used it and it's the >> easiest language to use by far, having conditionals as methods of >> Boolean is much better, easier to read and more flexiable. >> >> The beauty of smalltalk is that you can easily add new "language" >> features in the library with little effort and they do not look foreign >> to the language. in fact, almost all of smalltalk is implemented in the >> library and it only has 5 actual keywords. > > > What's your opinion, then, about why Smalltalk has failed to catch on?
The same question could be asked just about any language. If you have followed the internet discussion & hype around JVM/.NET languages - these are all very young languages and share many aspects. Languages like Clojure seem to be doing well.. Why? Charismatic leaders, perhaps? "Clojure: Lisp done right" - I don't believe that, but many do. People are sheeple. They believe that languages are religions. Marketing matters. Technical superiority rarely has much effect.
