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Discussion on: Should programming languages be made for IDEs rather than humans?

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stereobooster • Edited

I'm not an expert in the question, but as far as I know the main reason of SmallTalk failure was licensing model - it was very expensive. I consider Ruby the closest reincarnation of SmallTalk OOP model (which is widely used). Ruby doesn't have "forced" IDE though.