small talk programming langauge

For the next few posts I want to talk about some of the programming languages I have tried. The first one I want to talk about is smalltalk. I first heard about smalltalk while reading Dealers of lightning by: michael Hiltzik which is a book about Xerox's parc in its first years. The book did not talk much about smalltalk, but what it said had me curious about smalltalk. The language was created in 1971 and I had not heard of it before so I thought it was dead. So I did an Internet search and found squeak which is smalltalk. I was surprised that smalltalk was still around.