2014-05-12 22:33 GMT+02:00 Göran Krampe <go...@krampe.se>:
> Hi! > > On 04/30/2014 10:02 PM, kilon alios wrote: > >> Another mistake is that people tend to over idealising Smalltalk and it >> appears as if Smalltalk used to be popular, but I have found no evidence >> that Smalltalk was ever popular. Again I may be wrong but this is also >> maybe a motivation to regard Smalltalk dead. >> > > It was quite popular in... 1985-ish to 1995-ish. I would guess that during > those years VisualWorks and VisualAge (primarily) covered 33% of the OOP > market and C++ about 60% - and the rest by other even smaller things like > Eiffel. Those numbers I recall from some magazine, so I am not making them > up. If you were into OO at the time it was quite a lot of buzz around both > Smalltalk and C++ IMHO. > > But OOP was almost exclusively used in large corporations or institutions > that could muster the licenses. But Smalltalk *was* fairly big and some > truly huge systems were built. > > But it was not in any serious awareness outside the corporate world - > since there was hardly any cheap or free Smalltalk available. C++ was > though and ate up that space, and of course... > > ...you know what came in 1995. :) > > If say... Dolphin had been born as an open source (or at least gratis > download) project - so that people could easily build Win32 apps for > consumer use, like VB or Deplhi... then perhaps the world had been > different. > > regards, Göran > > But Smalltalk V was cheap, small, fairly well documented and worked on windows (DOS even).
