Re: [Newbies] What is Squeak called a "practical" Smalltalk

It's a philosophy more than technical application. It means many, but not all, decisions w.r.t development of the system are motivated by real-world requirements. Requirements like legacy applications able to keep running.

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:41 PM, Azka Niazi azka.akn@live.com wrote:

Squeak is referred to as a practical Smalltalk. "Practical" must technically mean something. What goals of practicality has Squeak achieved versus other Smalltalks or other programming environment/languages.

Regards, Azka

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