| Dave Astels joined the conversation with a blog post, suggestinging that these ideas could be easily implemented in Smalltalk or Ruby. |
| Ruby follows the influence of the Smalltalk language by giving methods and instance variables to all of its types. |
| He cannot stop himself from comparing every technology with Smalltalk, his favorite programming language. |
| It was mostly Smalltalk and Lisp cultures, both highly refined elite cultures more interested in doing the right thing than doing something boisterous. |
| The ODAP is an initiative to broaden the support available to companies using Smalltalk and object databases. |
| Smalltalk was created by Cincinnati-based Cincom Systems Inc. |
