Helping other for helping us too

Serge Stinckwich Serge.Stinckwich at info.unicaen.fr
Sun Apr 18 16:39:58 UTC 2004


stéphane ducasse wrote:
>> Since when did IBM drop Smalltalk?  VAST is alive and well so far as I
>> know.  VW's product manager is more visible to people who read USENET,
>> but IBM is still around.
> 
> 
> They did not dropped it.  It will stay around in a similar fashion than 
> all the languages
> they used in the past. But we know that the money goes into eclipse 
> websphere and the rest.
> 
>> Also, there are several important players other than the two biggies.
>> You can't just discount Dolphin and /MT and /X, each of which has their
>> niche.
> 
> 
> Dolphin indeed succeeded to create an active community and is a really 
> good environment on PC. but MT is basically only used by its creator. 
> For Smalltalk/X I do not know if there is an active community which I 
> would love because it deserves it. But right now there is no mac version 
> :(.

It should not be impossible because there is already an i386/FreeBSD 
build ...  I try to build a VM for MacOs X without success, but i'm not 
a Makefile guru ;-)

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