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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