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by saurik
3314 days ago
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OK: I was hoping it was going to be something to do with the design of the language as opposed to just to do with the implementation (as any of those languages could have been deployed for the web; especially so given my vague understanding that the web wasn't even Java's most original purpose). (Though I guess I can make up some reasons related to security models that would have been weirder to do in Self or TCL.) |
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I have no way of confirming the authenticity of the following, I read the whiteboard but anyone could have written it. On a whiteboard, in an office associated with Adele Goldberg where Parcplace Systems[1] had moved out, was penned the question; "What is the killer app for SmallTalk?" and below that in a different hand, was written, "and that is how the unholy love child between C++ and UCSD PASCAL wins."
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Goldberg_(computer_scien...