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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.

-- 
The lifetime of any political organisation is about three years before 
its been subverted by the people it tried to warn you about.

Anon.