[Newbies] What makes Smalltalk different

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 22.11.2011, at 18:48, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:

> At Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:35:28 +0100,
> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> 
>> It's true that superficially the Smalltalk GUI looks just like another IDE. No coincidence - Eclipse was originally written by Smalltalkers in Smalltalk. But there is the crucial difference that in regular IDEs you just manipulate text files. A text editor is a valid alternative for that. In Smalltalk, the GUI manipulates objects in memory. A text editor can not do that.
> 
>  Could this be "Visual Age for Java" rather than Eclipse? (Eclipse superceded VA for Java so transitively it could be true.)

Precisely. A couple of the IBM Smalltalk people went on to create Eclipse. The product name for IBM's Smalltalk was "Visual Age". That Smalltalk originally came from OTI.

- Bert -

>  Back when I knew about Java but not Smalltalk, the files Visual Age
> for Java installed on to my computer were very strange looking.
> Later, I learned that these were Smalltalk files.^^;
> 
> -- Yoshiki
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