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Hi Steven, you wrote:

> In 2009, Robert Martin gave a talk at RailsConf titled "What Killed
> Smalltalk Could Kill Ruby".

I've yet to watch the video, I'll do that later tonight, but I also =
remember what DHH said about Smalltalk in his FLOSS interview about =
Rails, with Randal Schwartz, in July 2009:

"""
[...] Smalltalk in itself... I tried a few times with some of the =
images, but it's too much of a different world. It's too idealistic for =
me in some senses. It's too much =93throw out everything you know and I =
will show you a new world=94. I haven't been ready to take that red =
pill.

I really like that Ruby is sort of, lets extract 80, 90 percent of what =
awesome about that and inject it with some real-world pragmatic =
approaches, like: You can use the text editor you like; You can save =
files on the file system; You can all these things in tracks with the =
real world. You don't have to leave everything behind to jump into this =
Smalltalk world. To me the whole thing about the Smalltalk images which =
is always just too confusing to me. Why? There's all this different =
distributions, they're not really compatible, it just seems like a =
hassle. I just didn't have the patience to wade through all that. But =
I'm glad somebody else did. I'm glad that all that wisdom is available =
mostly to people using Ruby. So, yeah, again: Not really.
"""

Source: =
http://www.transcribed-interview.com/dhh-rails-david-heinemeier-hansson-in=
terview-randal-schwartz-floss.html

Disclosure: I'm the one who made that transcription, and I recognized it =
from memory.

Greetings,

--=20
"You can't actually make computers run faster, you can only make them do =
less." - RiderOfGiraffes