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Sam Gentile doesn't like being reminded that Smalltalk and Lisp led the way to just about everything that the Java and C# crowd thinks is new:

You know you and Mr. Robertson are really starting to annoy me. If you want to squabble over words, of course it wasn't the first. By "real" I mean, it was the first large-scale in production implementation of AOP (1993) VS. RESEARCH. Were there hundreds of thousands seats in use of the implementations you list? No. This has been acknowledged by even the Java folks. This just gets tiresome as you continue this tiresome Smalltalk crusade. Repeat after me - who cares?

Well, apparently Sam cares - he cares enough to pay attention to the blogs that mention Smalltalk, and he cares enough to get irritated when it's pointed out that the shiny MS toys aren't actually that shiny. If no one cares, why is he bothering to yell? Like Patrick says, I'm just sayin'...