That happened once in the history of Smalltalk and the big player was IBM ... and actually that really showed impact to the Smalltalk market. Lots of consultings were running around, get pretty much money to teach COBOL programmers how to use Smalltalk (or to be more precise: learn how to click programs together).
That hype perhaps lasted a few years ... and then IBM switched to Java ... so they never can go back. Marten Am 09.01.20 um 23:16 schrieb horrido: > > It would be really nice to have some big tech company adopt Smalltalk, like > Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Uber, etc. That would > hit the ball right out of the park. Alas, I don't see that happening. I'm > afraid JP Morgan, Siemens, and Thales aren't good enough. -- Marten Feldtmann
