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 uni...
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]