This is the basic conundrum. As good as Smalltalk is, we need a way to convince companies that know nothing about Smalltalk, or are skeptical about Smalltalk, to adopt the language. Seeing is believing. Studies and testimonials just won’t cut it. Therefore, the best strategy is to convince a company…

GUARDIAN: (The doughnut pulses bright in time with the words) A question. Since before your sun burned hot in space and before your race was born, I have awaited a question. KIRK: What are you? GUARDIAN: I am the Guardian of Forever. We know that Smalltalk was quite popular in…

In terms of ease of learning, type safety, performance, productivity, and ecosystem. — Python Similarities Between Python and Smalltalk Both are based on byte code execution and virtual machines. Both are dynamically typed. Differences Between Python and Smalltalk Python has many warts; Smalltalk is the simplest, purest, most consistent language. Python is heavily oriented as a procedural scripting language. Its OOP implementation is sloppy.

In 1972, Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, and Adele Goldberg at Xerox PARC created a revolutionary new programming language called Smalltalk. It was designed as a very simple, instructional language for teaching programming to young people. It was designed as a purely Object-Oriented language based on the message passing paradigm.

In 1972, Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, and Adele Goldberg at Xerox PARC created a revolutionary new programming language called Smalltalk. It was designed as a very simple, instructional language for teaching programming to young people. It was designed as a purely Object-Oriented language based on the message passing paradigm.

Last month, I published a story about Latana’s Democracy Perception Index for 2021. A new report has just come out that shows how the Chinese perception of democracy has improved over 2021 — it can be downloaded from here. China is now perceived to be the most democratic nation in…

For God’s sake, let’s do something about this political crisis in America: We’ve finally reached a tipping point for US politics. America has gone over the edge into total political corruption. American politicians don’t care that children die from random gun violence. American politicians don’t care that millions of…

The Democracy Perception Index (DPI) is the world’s largest annual study on how people perceive democracy, conducted by Latana in collaboration with the Alliance of Democracies. You can download it from here. The 2021 edition offers an unprecedented comparison of global attitudes towards democracy since the beginning of the COVID…

For several reasons… First, China began as a totally impoverished nation in 1980, and just over 30 years later, she became the world’s largest economy by purchasing power parity: Second, in 1980, India had a similar size population and similar economic condition. But its economic growth was far, far…