[Newbies] Re: Why hasn't Smalltalk been wildly accepted?

Klaus D. Witzel klaus.witzel at cobss.com
Fri Aug 11 09:20:08 UTC 2006


Hi Blake,

on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:48:58 +0200, you wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 05:58:54 -0700, Klaus D. Witzel  
> <klaus.witzel at cobss.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:43:46 +0200, Michael Kohout wrote:
>>
>>> When I get home(and if the weather isn't too nice) I play with Squeak.
>>>  But when I go to work, I write Java(like a lot of people on this
>>> list, I'd imagine).
>>
>>   8-)
>
> I can pretty much choose whatever I want to work in. I'm looking for an  
> "in" for Smalltalk, but I have to interact with a lot of MS products....

Then, how about doing something for the opposite direction, Squeak as a  
COM-server (like MS$ had done the Java extensions in their MSJAVA VM)? See  
for example

- http://www.visoracle.com/squeakfaq/com-activex.html

which mentions the Squeak .NET bridge from SqueakMap.

/Klaus



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