Smalltalk is an object-oriented, dynamically typed, reflective programming language. Smalltalk was created as the language to underpin the "new world" of computing exemplified by "human–computer symbiosis."It was designed and created in part for educational use, more so for constructionist learning, at Xerox PARC by Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, Adele Goldberg, Ted Kaehler, Scott Wallace, and others during the 1970s, influenced by Lisp, Logo, Sketchpad and Simula.
The language was first generally released as Smalltalk-80 and has been widely used since. Smalltalk-like languages are in continuing active development, and have gathered loyal communities of users around them. ANSI Smalltalk was ratified in 1998 and represents the standard version of Smalltalk.

So I went to a Meetup.com Meet Up. The topic was MySQL and it was a bit frustrating because for the second meetup in a row I was stuck out side of a locked building unable to get in. After a bit of social engineering, I was in.

So the meetup is going really well. We were talking about MySQL and how it can be used to replace Oracle and MS SQL for any usage. And then the guy across from me talks about how he was on the team to integrate MySQL to Open COBOL.