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From: jeh@ritcv.UUCP
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Subject: "Smalltalk Coming to Micros!" ?... HA!
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Date: Thu, 12-Jul-84 19:23:08 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 12 19:23:08 1984
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I just finished watching a show from Ontario Province called "Bits and Bytes".
It was shown on my local PBS station.  In this episode, a man plays the role
of asking questions, and an apparent computer trends expert answers them. The
topic was computers in education:

Question Man:	Programming? Me? Well, I did try a little BASIC once, and
		that didn't seem to hard, and then I saw LOGO was even easier!
		Is there anything coming up that is going to make our home
		computers even easier to program?

Answer Woman:	As a matter of fact there is. There is a new language that
		will soon be available to micros. It's called...

Me, thinking:	[Oh, God, she isn't going to say Smalltalk, is she?]

Answer Woman:	... "Smalltalk".

Me, thinking:	[Oh, GOD! She said it!]

:-)

Anyway, the cameras then switched over to Adele Goldberg (by the way,
Goldberg.PA, if you're reading, congratulations on your new job as
president of the ACM!) telling us how great Browsers are because they
let you find interesting things while you are looking for something else.
We also saw some Xerox machine (probably a Dorado -- your typical home
computer micro) running Smalltalk-80.

To say the least, I was shocked. Does anyone out there want to defend
that prediction of Smalltalk-in-the-home-soon?

				Jim Heliotis
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P.S. Are a lot of UT people into Monty Python - type cartoon feet?