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Subject: Re: Origin of "Smalltalk" - another theory
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Date: Mon, 8-Jun-87 11:42:08 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  8 11:42:08 1987
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The origin of the name "Smalltalk" -- according its inventor, Alan Kay,
quoted in "The AI Business" (eds. P. H. Winston & K. A. Prendergast; MIT
Press, 1984), p. 174:

	"We called Smalltalk Smalltalk so that nobody would expect anything
	 from it."


					Jim Tubman
					The Computer-Guided Diagnosis Project
					University of Saskatchewan
					Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
					Canada	S7N 0W0

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