I see Self has simplified some concepts in Smalltalk and introduced prototype-based programming. It seems that SELF is even more elegant than Smalltalk. But I haven't seen many actions of SELF development. I cannot find any application written in SELF. why? However, Squeak uses its Morphic graphics system.
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ShiningRay @ Nirvana> "But I haven't seen many actions of SELF development. I cannot find any application written in SELF. why?"
Might as well ask why C++, Java, Visual Basic, Perl and Python are generally used in preference to Smalltalk by most development projects.
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.
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