It was the 81 BYTE article that got me really interested in Smalltalk (I miss BYTE of that era, but times change ...).
First time I got to use it was to put together a live demo for a bid we were working on for a new project. Must have been around 87/88, got a shiny new Dell 286 to run Smalltalk/V, took Dell several goes to find me a VGA card that would work properly on the system.
Last time I used it in anger was at JP Morgan in 2009.
Things like IntelliJ IDEA get you part way these days, but the whole live, interactive environment really was revelatory, only thing close I used was Interlisp on a XEROX 1108.
It's amazing how progress in software engineering has been held back by fashion and entrenched opinions, what people think is trendy and would look good on their CV.
First time I got to use it was to put together a live demo for a bid we were working on for a new project. Must have been around 87/88, got a shiny new Dell 286 to run Smalltalk/V, took Dell several goes to find me a VGA card that would work properly on the system.
Last time I used it in anger was at JP Morgan in 2009.
Things like IntelliJ IDEA get you part way these days, but the whole live, interactive environment really was revelatory, only thing close I used was Interlisp on a XEROX 1108.
It's amazing how progress in software engineering has been held back by fashion and entrenched opinions, what people think is trendy and would look good on their CV.