According to Dave, SmallTalk failed because the market shifted and it was very difficult to make dynamic language like SmallTalk run efficiently on a virtual machine like the JVM.

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Most of us would agree with him that many of today's popular languages hide useful patterns behind way too much syntax clutter.
These extensions allow us to specify the actual rules of the interaction.
As I hand rolled the all parts of the system, I kept the syntax very simple.
What Do You Think of Formal Views in Programming Languages?
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