Smalltalk

since unknown year (earliest usage recorded on this site was 1986)

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avowkind

Uche

David

bhaugen

jdunck

wilane

daddy

givas

eMBee

avowkind - 2 years

Uche - 3 years

David - 18 years

bhaugen - 4 years

jdunck - 2 years

wilane - 26 years

daddy - 5 years

givas - 1 years

eMBee - 17 years

avowkind

1986–1987

loved this as the first environment where I could choose my editor colours. Wrote a simulator for traffic flows.

Uche

1992–1994

David

1993–2010

bhaugen

1995–1998

Developed a manufacturing shop floor scheduling program. Smalltalk was probably the only language it could have been done in at the time. Still my fave.

wilane

1999–

This is the true future

jdunck

1999–2000

After my disgust with C++, I started wondering who ever thought this OOP stuff was a good idea. I took a Programming Languages survey class, which included Smalltalk. Holy crap, what was Stroustrup smoking? This stuff was beautiful! Then I realized there were incompatible runtimes, and nobody could natively run it, and... I never worked in Smalltalk for real. Still, I'll listen to any Smalltalk expert-- like the LISPers, they're a smart group, generally unafraid to go an unpopular way in exchange for great tools.

daddy

2000–2004

supercollider isn't exactly smalltalk but it's damn close

givas

2004

Sqeak!

eMBee

2008–

started learning smalltalk because of squeak on the OLPC

abcoates

Jenni

zellyn

“This one time in college…”