which means we need more universities and other academic/educational organisations to teach Smalltalk and use Smalltalk in research, be it Squeak or any commercial dialect -- should I point to Cincom's Academic Program here ? ;-)

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: John Pfersich [mailto:jp1660 at att.net]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 5. Juli 2005 04:15
An: The general-purpose Squeak developers list; vwnc at cs.uiuc.edu
Betreff: Re: Commercial Smalltalks deserve our support too (Was:
www.squeak.org finally updated)


I biggest problem that I see with the Smalltalk is the apparent lack of 
Smalltalk "programmers", not the competition between the various Smalltalks.

At 04:22 PM 7/4/2005 +0200, Avi Bryant wrote:

>I don't think there's any danger of Squeak eroding Cincom's market
>share.  The parts of the market that need the one are too different
>from the parts that need the other.  As "competitors" I think they
>largely serve to grow the total Smalltalk market, which is good for
>everybody.
>
>Avi