To Adele Goldberg, Dan Ingalls, pioneers of object-oriented programming, and Smalltalk language and development environment. As researchers at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), each saw in their own way the promise of objects, and was in a unique http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=7119/ddj0205a/0205a.htm
VisualWorks performance tuning, mentoring, training: we attack and fix the underlying source/cause of 80% of the performance problems attributed to Smalltalk: Procedural Object Oriented Programming: POOP. http://www.smalltalkbrewery.com/
Interest in decades-old language grows as developers use it for Web applications and services, where one piece of software talks to others without knowing much about the other system, a concept originated in Smalltalk. [InformationWeek] http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=9400315