Before you can have Smalltalk, you must first defeat capitalism?

&gt; Some people, unbound from the strictures of having to work themselves to the bone to eat, will produce plays, will produce symphonies.<p>I don‘t get the point to link <i>will produce symphonies</i> to the wikipedia page of Philip Glass. It is well known that he had to work as a plumber for decades.

Once Smalltalk was released into the wild by Xerox PARC, several companies tried to commercialize it, including IBM. The problem was that developers needed expensive workstations to develop and deployment required pricey run-time-environments and yet, the source code was difficult to hide from the users.<p>Then the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh were released. Both were cheaper than the workstations and the Mac even had the cool look of the Smalltalk desktop. For non-purists the new options were far more appealing even if they fell way short of the Smalltalk-80 environment&#x27;s benefits.

The proletariat can rock that soviet tech, making some lips&#x2F;forth&#x2F;prolog insanity. Once they&#x27;re done, I&#x27;ll simulate it at 10,000 times native speed on one core of my Apple iThing.

Ironic, given that capitalism drove the creation of Smalltalk, and the boomer generation ruined college for those who came after