If Smalltalk is dead - why is it my most read post?
Somehow I topped 2gb of traffic on the blog this month so I went in search of my stats, unfortunately I found nothing which highlighted any untoward usage, but I did find that my most read blog post is for that dead language Smalltalk:
If Smalltalk is dead, why is it so popular?
Comments (3)
Hi Mark. I don't think of Smalltalk as dead, but I'm interested in the particular post--you're mentioning Dolphin and usenet. I gather there are a lot of people still trying to get at Usenet without using standard clients for some reason.
left by Troy Brumley . Tuesday, 1 July 2008 7:09 AM
Because it's not dead. See my blog entries, including my post about why this is the Year Of Smalltalk - http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/the-year-of-smalltalk.html
left by Randal L. Schwartz . Tuesday, 1 July 2008 6:59 AM
You got the most read post because the website is small and this small number is highly interested in smalltalk. Go place your post on a website with a large user base like codeproject or codeplex or sourceforge and find out how few post-read you get. Its just not wise for Software Engineers today to learn smalltalk unless they want a niche market and do not mind having a hard time finding a new job if the current is lost and traveling hundreds if not thousands of mile for the new job.