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dpraburaj | 5 years ago

Doesn't look like it although Alan Kay has expressed admiration for Lisp in many places.

> As for hype: Another motive for "smalltalk" was the practice at the time of naming operating, and other, systems (which hardly did anything) after mighty indo-european gods, such as Thor, Zeus, Odin, etc. I figured that if Smalltalk ever did something neat, then people would be pleasantly surprised.

http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/50.

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