The article highlights several contributions of Smalltalk to CS, but here's a few more:
David Ungar and Randall Smith, originally at Xerox PARC, then Stanford, designed Self, a prototype-based dynamic JITted Smalltalk dialect. In 1991 they joined Sun Microsystems, where Self kept being developed.
In 1994, Urs Hölzle at Stanford wrote a better compiler for Self. He was approached by Dave Griswold, who wrote a paper in 1993 with Gilad Bracha titled 'Strongtalk: Typechecking Smalltalk in a Production Environment', and together with Lars Bak the four of them started a company to commercialize Strongtalk. They were acquihired by Sun in 1997.
Together, the Self and Strongtalk teams' work resulted in the HotSpot VM for Java in 1999.
- David Ungar went on to be a member of the 'Dynamic Optimization Group' at IBM Research.
- Randall Smith now works at the 'Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization Group' at Oracle Labs.
- Urs Hölzle was one of Google's first hires and its first VP of Engineering and significantly shaped the company.
- Lars Bak joined Google in 2004 and went on to design the V8 runtime and Dart.
- Gilad Bracha went on to co-author much of the Java Language Specification and the Java VM Specification, then started a company to design the language Newspeak, and now works at Google on Dart.
- Dave Griswold continued to develop Strongtalk well into the 2000s, but I can't find any current info on him. If you know what he's up to these days, let me know!
David Ungar and Randall Smith, originally at Xerox PARC, then Stanford, designed Self, a prototype-based dynamic JITted Smalltalk dialect. In 1991 they joined Sun Microsystems, where Self kept being developed.
In 1994, Urs Hölzle at Stanford wrote a better compiler for Self. He was approached by Dave Griswold, who wrote a paper in 1993 with Gilad Bracha titled 'Strongtalk: Typechecking Smalltalk in a Production Environment', and together with Lars Bak the four of them started a company to commercialize Strongtalk. They were acquihired by Sun in 1997.
Together, the Self and Strongtalk teams' work resulted in the HotSpot VM for Java in 1999.
- David Ungar went on to be a member of the 'Dynamic Optimization Group' at IBM Research.
- Randall Smith now works at the 'Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization Group' at Oracle Labs.
- Urs Hölzle was one of Google's first hires and its first VP of Engineering and significantly shaped the company.
- Lars Bak joined Google in 2004 and went on to design the V8 runtime and Dart.
- Gilad Bracha went on to co-author much of the Java Language Specification and the Java VM Specification, then started a company to design the language Newspeak, and now works at Google on Dart.
- Dave Griswold continued to develop Strongtalk well into the 2000s, but I can't find any current info on him. If you know what he's up to these days, let me know!