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I'm curious to know if there are any plans to change Squeak 
over to Java ? And if it would be possible ? 
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It's been tried - sorta - by some very talented people.  The idea was to 
have all the benefits of the Smalltalk IDE without the "weird syntax"; C 
was the language of choice. 

The system I'm describing is/was Actor.  Maybe it failed because there 
was only one small vendor behind it.  My hunch is that there was more 
to it though, and I would recommend that we not race down the same 
path as Java.



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personally I prefer Smalltalk and its benefits such as 
workspaces, browsers, dynamic compilation etc (I don't like to 
use get and set and some of the huge method headers) but I'm 
thinking from the support angle. What could have been done 
with the huge developer base.
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If you are going to make the user base argument, it would be better to 
get ahead of the curve and talk about C#.  I figure it's even money that 
C# will be the hype-compliant language in the very near future; then it 
will step aside in favor of something else.  I'm not sure whether to be 
disappointed by it all, or just plain glad the competition hasn't listened to 
me :)

Bill


Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D.
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