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Smalltalk Died because Of Greed, Speed, Mis-Development, and Hype. Adele Goldberg's greed killed it early on three ways: 1) High licensing fees in thousands of dollars contrasting Microsoft's $100 market. 2) Profit share fees - attempted to get a share of a company's benefit from using Smalltalk.
GNU Smalltalk is a free implementation of the Smalltalk-80 language which runs on most versions on Unix and, in general, everywhere you can find a POSIX-compliance library.
Who uses Smalltalk? 41 companies reportedly use Smalltalk in their tech stacks, including CrowdStrike, ServiceTitan, and Broadcom.
I am a c# developer and most of my friends are much smarter than me, and they laugh at me and start to swear at me in smalltalk. I want to learn this so that I might better be insulted at their insults... and maybe learn a thing or two in the process.
So, what is the best place to start with regard to smalltalk in a windows environment?
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