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<p><font size=3 face=SimSun><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>ShiningRay @ Nirvana>
</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>“</span></font>But
I haven't seen many actions of SELF development.<font face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'> </span></font>I cannot find any<font
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'> </span></font>application<font
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'> </span></font>written
in<font face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'> </span></font>SELF.
why?<font face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>”</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face=SimSun><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Might as well ask
why C++, Java, Visual Basic, Perl and Python are generally used in preference
to Smalltalk by most development projects.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=SimSun><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>One issue with Self
is the lack of either a commercial IDE with major vendor support or a
Squeak-like open source development project for the language and IDE.
Self has always resembled more a research project than a serious attempt at a
production-ready development platform.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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