Simula and Smalltalk: A Social and Political History http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/dugan/history.html Back to the Future: The Story of Squeak, A Practical Smalltalk Written in Itself, by DanIngalls, TedKaehler, JohnMaloney, ScottWallace, AlanKay, at Apple Computer while doing this work, now at:
To make Smalltalk a truly universal language with equal chances for anyone, we might want to let go of English. But then we need a language which is not too hard to learn. We might try... Esperanto! It has only 16 grammar rules and the rest is just learning words. It would be something different if we would start programming Smalltalk a la Esperanto. We could even write these e-mails in Esperanto. – ReinierVanLoon
