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[igouy]

afaict Self and Dylan were research projects / product development projects.

Smalltalk had multiple commercial implementations and was used to build mission critical software in banks and utility companies and manufacturing companies and…

https://www.davethomas.net/papers/ubiquitous1995.pdf

[pjmlp → igouy]

Apple sold Dylan to Harlequin, which sold it as a DylanWorks for some time.

Smalltalk still has commercial implementations, like Cincom.

https://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/