Thanks. I will appreciate whatever you can come up with.

8-)


At 12:16 PM -0500 1/13/00, Mark Windholtz wrote:
>Squeakers,
>
>There was an attempt by ObjectShare/ParcPlace
>to unite VisualSmalltalk and VisualWorks.
>
>Around that time they published a very interesting
>booklet that detailed method by method the differences
>between the two.  It may have even included some
>IBM comparisons (I'm not remembering clearly now),
>and perhaps ANSI comparisons.
>
>I will try to dig this book up if I can
>(no guarantees that I still have it)
>and post the title, etc..
>Give me a few days on this.
>
>-Mark
>
>Jeff Szuhay wrote:
>  >
>  > I just received a copy of "SmallTalk by Example" because
>  > I like learning from guided example. And, yes, it is
>  > oriented toward VisualWorks 2.0 or 2.5.
>  >
>  > I did a cursory look around SmallTalk sites but could find
>  > no reasonable comparison of the different dialects of
>  > SmallTalk.
>  >
>  > For instance, what are the differences between Squeak, QKS
>  > SmallTalk Agents, VisualWorks, Visual Age, and Dolphin
>  > (to name just a few)?
>  >
>  > How portable is code between them?
>  >
>  > What are the criteria for choosing one over the other?
>  > (One my criteria here is that it must run on a Mac.)
>  >
>  > Can anyone point me to a good, thorough (even gritty)
>  > comparison of the SmallTalks out there?
>  >
>
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