Tudor Girba and his colleagues at feenk need to be recognized, too. In many respects, they have pushed Smalltalk to do things that, I think, the original designers would have heartily endorsed.
On Sun, Jul 25, 2021, 18:44 <horrido.hobb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks to everyone for some great suggestions. > > I’m coming around to the notion that I asked the wrong question. In the > context of Smalltalk’s 50th anniversary, the reason I asked the question is > because I noted that in APL’s 50th anniversary celebration, they gave an > award to the one individual who was deemed the greatest contributor to APL. > So I thought I might do the same for Smalltalk. > > But now, I’m seeing that was somewhat wrongheaded. Yes, it is the > community that made Smalltalk what it was, and what it is today. Singling > out one individual seems unfair, and rather arbitrary. > > Maybe I’ll conduct a poll with these suggestions and let the Smalltalk > community express their support with their votes. That may even provide > some insight. >
