From: Mark Wilson <mwilson13@...>
Date: 2003-08-21T02:46:17+09:00
Subject: Re: the mindshare of Ruby (was)


On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, at 11:49 AM, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:

> [snip]

> Smalltalk is dead not because its paradigms are outmoded, but because 
> other
> languages have offered similar things and have improved generally upon 
> it.
> The mindshare has moved on.  No sane programmer uses it for new 
> applications
> or systems development.  Smalltalk is a has-been language.

Smalltalk is very much alive. In fact, a person who went from Ruby to 
Smalltalk has written a very effective web application server that is 
quite successful. See

http://www.beta4.com/seaside2/

> [snip]

Regards,

Mark