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Cool. I don't think I've ever heard a war story about a SmallTalk codebase before -- I have always gotten the impression that SmallTalk was a research/toy language similar to Haskell that is held in high regard but rarely used in production.



At one point, 80% of Fortune 500 companies were using it. No capital T. (This is how we used to identify the pointy hairs.)




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