I got into professional software development in the early 2000s. At the time Java and .NET were kings. Ive since learned that Smalltalk was a serious contender in the 90s. My question is, what happened?
Was there something about the Smalltalk language or runtime that made it a poor choice for business software, or did Sun and Microsoft just have better marketing?
Ted C. Howard /
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