Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On 23/11/2024 08:26, Pancho wrote:

On 11/23/24 01:41, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

I’m pretty sure it has been used commercially, back in the 1980s or
so, maybe even the 1990s.

 Probably, just as some people program in Haskell or Prolog.
 

It has occasionally. Back in the day when I scanned job adverts 'must be proficient in smalltalk has been seen.
But the reason why the majority of work was 'experienced in C Unix and vi' was on the job was because it was positive feedback loop. The more people used it the more people learnt it in order to maintain and extend it.
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