BTW, I have played even less with VW simply because I like Squeak's  
VM and its interface a lot more than VW's.

Thanks,
- Daniel

On May 25, 2005, at 2:19 AM, Daniel Salama wrote:

> Thanks. Got one now.
>
> A general question about VMs. I've been "playing" mostly with  
> Squeak to learn Smalltalk as well as the Squeak environment,  
> Seaside, and Omnibase. I haven't really done anything serious or  
> any serious programming yet. However, looking at other people's  
> work and postings, I know there are others doing serious  
> programming in Squeak.
>
> My intentions are to develop several production applications for  
> clients of mine. Hopefully host them all in a single VM (since  
> that's what I'm used to do now using Apache and Ruby on Rails). My  
> question is:
>
> Looking at all the progress being made in Squeak with version 3.8  
> and upcoming versions, with changes being made almost daily, is  
> Squeak ready to be used for serious production web-based  
> applications (using Seaside) or is VW more mature and stable? Just  
> launching 3.8 VM and its image, the first thing the Welcome to  
> message says is: "Squeak is a rapidly moving project based on  
> Smalltalk-80, with which it is still reasonably compatible". What  
> does it mean by reasonably compatible? Is it more compatible than  
> VW? Please excuse this naive question since I'm still relatively  
> new to Smalltalk and the two mostly mentioned VMs I've heard of are  
> Squeak and VW. Maybe VW is in a similar level/stage as Squeak, i  
> don't know.
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>
> On May 25, 2005, at 2:05 AM, John M McIntosh wrote:
>
>
>> Well any image from 2.x thru to 3.9 should work with this VM.
>>
>> My understanding is a 3.8 image can be found at:
>> http://box1.squeakfoundation.org/files/3.8/
>>
>>
>> On May 24, 2005, at 7:52 PM, Daniel Salama wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> John,
>>>
>>> I downloaded you VM. Question I have is where do I get a 3.8.X  
>>> image?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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