That's very good to hear!  The one thing that intregued me (as far as creating
stand-alone apps) was the Smalltalk-to-C compiler.  The version I tried didn't
have it (of course, that was a long time ago), but it was promised for
people who wanted to buy the full VM. 

I may just have to take a peek at it, just for old time's sake. :)


On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 05:09:19PM -0600, David Farber wrote:
> 
> Kevin -- Smalltalk/X is alive and well. And also free these days. http://www.exept.de I saw Claus last week at Camp Smalltalk and, as usual, he showed me eleven different ways that Smalltalk/X could walk on water. I'm actually hoping to to use Smalltalk/X instead of Perl for a bunch of Linux stuff I'm doing--so far I'm very hopeful.
> 
> david
> 
> At 04:16 PM 6/20/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 02:51:39PM -0500, Aaron wrote:
> >> On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Kevin Fisher wrote:
> >> 
> >> > > Also, GNU Smalltalk has a Tk interface.  A GTK interface is eventually the
> >> > > plan, judging from the folders in the tarball.   May not be terribly
> >> > > useful to look at, I've no clue how different GST is set up.
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > Wow...GNU Smalltalk...that takes me back.  I remember playing with that
> >> > back in '94ish..it didn't have an interface of any kind, and sadly didn't
> >> > appear to be under any kind of development.
> >> 
> >> It's under development still, just not intensively.  AFAIK, Paolo
> >> is the only one really putting much work into it.  There may have been
> >> 
> >> I've had problems getting the Tk interface work in the past, but I had no
> >> problems getting it to work with GST 1.95.10 under Linux/x86 (RH 7.x?).
> >> Compiled with no probs on my iBook running Debian 3.0, haven't had the
> >> time to try Blox on it yet- but I think I shall now. :)
> >> 
> >> Aaron
> >
> >
> >Well, it's nice to see someone was working on it after all these years. :)
> >I think after Gnu Smalltalk I moved on to Smalltalk/X for a while.  I've
> >been meaning to check back into that...at the time they didn't have any
> >North American distributers for it (this was back in '95 or '96).
> >
> >'Course after '96 I was stuck in C++ hell until early '98, when someone pointed
> >me to Squeak.   I've been allergic to C++ ever since. :)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> --
> David Farber
> dfarber at numenor.com
>