[agumonkey]

I wonder if the Objective part of it made it more lively in the mainstream eyes too instead of "stagnant/crude" sml.

[mhd]

As far as I can remember, those were almost deprecated even way back when. It's never been much used for GUIs anyway, and I believe most servers and compilers were mostly written in a functional fashion.

[agumonkey]

Mystery stays intact.