The Early History Of Smalltalk (1993)
I really wonder what the software world would look like today if the Smalltalk environment had predominated. It seems like various ideas from the Kay&#x27;s group get reinvented from time to time, but we it&#x27;s not really mainstream. Even the RAD tools from the 90s somewhat fell out of favor, partially due to the rise of the web, which meant reinventing everything in the browser.<p>From hearing several talks by Alan Kay since then, it doesn&#x27;t sound like software quite turned out the way he envisioned it, but he still thinks there&#x27;s a better way to do things that&#x27;s related to what he was thinking in the 70s with a living environment of little computers sending messages to one another. He&#x27;s talked of the idea of modeling biological cells since then.