Why Smalltalk?

Welcome Back to Why Smalltalk. After a brief period of being offline, we are now back. In the coming months, we plan to create an informative site dealing with Smalltalk for both business and personal use. Please bear with us as we get back
up and running. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions email: jjones@ksc.com

Independent research shows Smalltalk is the Most Productive development language!

Get the message out! Don't just write Smalltalk, talk Smalltalk!

Last updated: 01/09/02

Over the years I have been asked by countless clients, "Why should we use Smalltalk?" The goal of this website is to help answer this very complex question.

There are a whole collection of features in Smalltalk that combine to make it the best. Often, during comparisons, I hear a lot of "but C++ can sort of do that. It is just a bit harder" or "Java has a meta layer. Look, I can get a class name." I want people to start thinking about all of the "Little things" that make Smalltalk the best. I want managers and developers to realize that these items add up to a HUGE win for the developer and for the client. Here is something to think about. Why is it that the entire Smalltalk development environment is cleanly written in the language itself with full access to the source code? Why aren't the competing object-oriented environments able to do the same?

Check out the NEW Jobs section. Recently updated!

Read all about the latest developments in the Smalltalk World in this latest article Smalltalk Rolls On!

Smalltalk MT 2.6 is out!

Smalltalk MT 2.6 has been released with a host of new and improved features. To top it all off you can now create DLL's and exe's with the evaluation version. Check it out at www.objectconnect.com

Java/C++ Programmer Tries Smalltalk and Falls in Love

This is the touching story of a poor misguided Java Programmer seeing the light moving up to Smalltalk!

Dolphin Smalltalk Rocks the Web with it's new Plug-in

Object-Arts has created an excellent new offerring for Web savy Smalltalkers. At only $89 it is a Must own!

FLASH - NYCSTUG has new website!

The NYC Smalltalk User Group has created an excellent new web site entirely based on FLASH. It's really cool and worth a look!

Do you think our grand kids will believe us when we tell them that some programming languages used to have primitive types?

Read what IBM has to say on this topic at:

Primitive Types Considered Harmful!