> The purpose of the Smalltalk project is to provide computer support for the creative spirit in everyone.

I have the sense that Bjarne Stroustrup and James Gosling were unaware of this document, or if they were, disagreed with it. It’s a shame they looked more to Simula for inspiration.

Back in the day, programming in Java, I always had the distinct feeling that the compiler was more important than me. Too much of my time was not spent creating. It was spent making the compiler happy. I’ve wondered what would have happened if Sun had Gosling build the JVM and someone else design the language (Bill Joy?). Would we have gotten a language that was designed for humans?