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From: rgatkinson@watmum.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Excuse my ignorance !
Message-ID: <998@watmum.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-May-87 10:16:54 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 29 10:16:54 1987
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In article <3627@osu-eddie.UUCP> rewari@osu-eddie.UUCP writes:
>From: Pawan Rewari <rewari>
>
>	I still don't know why SmallTalk is called SmallTalk.

Small point:  It's Smalltalk, not SmallTalk.  I still don't know the
actual origins, other than the fact that it is a small ("simple")
language.  The original design goals (from Smalltalk '72) also included
designing a language that small people (read children) could use.  But
I am only surmizing.

	-bob atkinson