Dr. Dobb’s | Smalltalk: Requiem or Resurgence? | May 6, 2006:

Jeremy Chan

The grandaddy of the object-oriented world, Smalltalk has fascinated developers since it appeared on the programming scene.
Jeremy Chan is a Principal Consultant at the Jonah Group and a Technical Architect with over 10 years of experience in object-oriented software engineering.

The August 1978 issue of BYTE magazine had a language feature that included a small picture of the ‘Land Of Small Talk’, perched on a tower amid Fortran Ocean, to the south of Pascal’s Triangle, North of Lisp Jungle, and East of the Basic Sea. The following text, associated with a description of the language, uncannily describes the state of Smalltalk both past and present.”

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At the recent Smalltalk Solutions Conference, Georg Heeg organized a talk around what he termed “The Smalltalk Paradox”, as enumerated in the quotation above. Nostalgic as always for the full-force return of Smalltalk to the fore of modern object-oriented software development, I listened attentively.

Go read the whole article… it’s nicely done.

In the “it’s a small world” category, I hired/supervised Jeremy on one of his work terms when he was at Carleton University. What langauge were we using? Smalltalk, of course.