[Newbies] Re: Why hasn't Smalltalk been wildly accepted?

[Blake]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 02:20:08 -0700, Klaus D. Witzel  
<klaus.witzel at cobss.com> wrote:

> Hi Blake,
>
> on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:48:58 +0200, you wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 05:58:54 -0700, Klaus D. Witzel  
>> <klaus.witzel at cobss.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:43:46 +0200, Michael Kohout wrote:
>>>
>>>> When I get home(and if the weather isn't too nice) I play with Squeak.
>>>>  But when I go to work, I write Java(like a lot of people on this
>>>> list, I'd imagine).
>>>
>>>   8-)
>>
>> I can pretty much choose whatever I want to work in. I'm looking for an  
>> "in" for Smalltalk, but I have to interact with a lot of MS products....
>
> Then, how about doing something for the opposite direction, Squeak as a  
> COM-server (like MS$ had done the Java extensions in their MSJAVA VM)?  
> See for example
>
> - http://www.visoracle.com/squeakfaq/com-activex.html
>
> which mentions the Squeak .NET bridge from SqueakMap.

That's a very interesting idea, Klaus. I'll check it out!