[CrankyCanuck]

Good old DT. Dave was a prof of mine in the late 1980's.. CompSci at Carleton in Ottawa, Canada. SmallTalk...my first reaction (95.202 for those that remember...) was WTF?? We had just done Pascal...SmallTalk just blew our minds. It was like you had to smoke dope first... you know, to get it. Many late nights in the lab... it was running in Mac emulation on ancient Lisa computers (I shit you not). Anyhow, none of really understood why we had to learn SmallTalk. There were certainly no summer jobs for SmallTalk guys (dBase? C? sure... ) But DT and the rest of the profs on the 5th floor extolled the value of Objects. Smalltalk is just the tool they said...to learn about OOP. DT always had the best lectures...he was a total blast to listen to. I may have even learned a few things. The only guys I knew that made a buck off of SmallTalk went to work for Dave at OTI. And then that got bought by IBM. Dave absolutely did well...I'm sure he's still smiling.