Smalltalk is not the Grand Old Man of programming languages, but the future of software development created 40 years in the past.
Yup. And that future was realized in systems less monolithic than Smalltalk. The WIMP interface made it to most major platforms by 1990. Objective-C and later Ruby swiped Smalltalk's message passing semantics and basic object model and freed it from its all-or-nothing execution environment. And tons of languages (not least of which is C++) have taken Smalltalk's cue on object oriented design.
What more is there left for Smalltalk to accomplish? That's not bad, for a language which basically never made it out of PARC for two decades!
Yup. And that future was realized in systems less monolithic than Smalltalk. The WIMP interface made it to most major platforms by 1990. Objective-C and later Ruby swiped Smalltalk's message passing semantics and basic object model and freed it from its all-or-nothing execution environment. And tons of languages (not least of which is C++) have taken Smalltalk's cue on object oriented design.
What more is there left for Smalltalk to accomplish? That's not bad, for a language which basically never made it out of PARC for two decades!