Smalltalk might not be used a lot today, but it had a big impact on programming languages, development methods and interface design.
Read more about smalltalk (as seen in 1981) in the Byte Magazine’s special issue on Smalltalk 80 (or just admire the grotesque amount of advertisements for sooo many products)
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08/mode/2up
#smalltalk #UX #history
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