Combining programming language flamewar with generational flamewar is the weirdest thing I've seen in a while. We ban accounts that post like this, for obvious reasons. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here?

And Seinfeld is unfunny because the jokes are all overdone.

> It wasn't old or overdone when they did it, because they were the first ones to do it. But the things it created were so brilliant and popular, they became woven into the fabric of that show's genre.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunn...

Smalltalk is woven in to the fabric of every modern object-oriented programming language.

Banks and other major companies use Smalltalk as a "secret weapon". I put it on my résumé as a skill (mainly because I was arsing about with Squeak in the early 2000s), and recruiters kept calling me about it. Even though it's not publicly acknowledged that these companies are using it.

I'm sure there are many interesting and useful things in the world you have not heard of and no one you know uses.

Not quite sure what the point of this comment was. Smalltalk may not see much commerical usage (I'm fact I've read some interesting articles as to why that never happened) but many of its foundations exist in modern programming languages today.

Kay himself says here: "Our plan and our hope was that the next generation of kids would come along and do something better than Smalltalk ..." (quoted by ssivark in the long excerpt above)

Do you have any example of a programming language that has been "brought back to life" ?

The vast majority of people I know working with Smalltalk is younger than "boomers". The non-academic half of them is just getting on with using it instead of trying to preach about it.