David,

Given your plug, I'll check it out more carefully.

  --jt

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Jan Theodore Galkowski  demiourgos at smalltalk.org
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On Fri, 8 Oct 1999 21:38:58    David T. Lewis wrote:
>
>What's so terrible about the pricing? The personal use version is $150, and
>I think that there is a freely distributed version (maybe out of date)
>available also. I bought a copy a few years ago (mainly just so I could
>learn Smalltalk), and it was money well spent. I think that Smalltalk/X is
>a really impressive piece of work, all the more so since it was basically
>created by one person. It's worth the $150 just to see how it works - quite
>a lot different from (and in certain ways better than) any other Smalltalk
>I've seen.
>
>On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 10:52:03AM -0400, Jan Theodore Galkowski wrote:
>> Well, this sounds nice, but it clearly isn't Smalltalk
>> For Everyman: Just look at the prices!  Moreover, 
>> while there are advantages hitching a ride on the
>> Big Ship, there is the problem of not being able to
>> choose where one goes.
>> ________________________________________________
>> Jan Theodore Galkowski  demiourgos at smalltalk.org
>> home.stny.rr.com/algebraist/         squeak.org/
>> www.smalltalk.org/
>
>> >There is Smalltalk/X: http://www.exept.de/en/smalltalkx.html
>> >
>> >It's a very interesting commercial Smalltalk System. The Smalltalk/X
>> >VM interprets both ST/X Bytecode and Java Bytecode. Very cool.
>> >
>> >There is some information about the Smalltalk/X Java integration
>> >at http://www.exept.de/en/stja97.html
>> >
>> >  Marcus
>> >
>> >Marcus Denker marcus at ira.uka.de fon at home:(0721)614235 @work:(0721)608-2749  
>
>


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