Kevin -- Smalltalk/X is alive and well. And also free these days. http://www.exept.de I saw Claus last week at Camp Smalltalk and, as usual, he showed me eleven different ways that Smalltalk/X could walk on water. I'm actually hoping to to use Smalltalk/X instead of Perl for a bunch of Linux stuff I'm doing--so far I'm very hopeful.

david

At 04:16 PM 6/20/02 -0400, you wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 02:51:39PM -0500, Aaron wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Kevin Fisher wrote:
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>> > > Also, GNU Smalltalk has a Tk interface.  A GTK interface is eventually the
>> > > plan, judging from the folders in the tarball.   May not be terribly
>> > > useful to look at, I've no clue how different GST is set up.
>> > >
>> >
>> > Wow...GNU Smalltalk...that takes me back.  I remember playing with that
>> > back in '94ish..it didn't have an interface of any kind, and sadly didn't
>> > appear to be under any kind of development.
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>> It's under development still, just not intensively.  AFAIK, Paolo
>> is the only one really putting much work into it.  There may have been
>> 
>> I've had problems getting the Tk interface work in the past, but I had no
>> problems getting it to work with GST 1.95.10 under Linux/x86 (RH 7.x?).
>> Compiled with no probs on my iBook running Debian 3.0, haven't had the
>> time to try Blox on it yet- but I think I shall now. :)
>> 
>> Aaron
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>Well, it's nice to see someone was working on it after all these years. :)
>I think after Gnu Smalltalk I moved on to Smalltalk/X for a while.  I've
>been meaning to check back into that...at the time they didn't have any
>North American distributers for it (this was back in '95 or '96).
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>'Course after '96 I was stuck in C++ hell until early '98, when someone pointed
>me to Squeak.   I've been allergic to C++ ever since. :)
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