Smalltalk and Self

WonDerer222 at aol.com WonDerer222 at aol.com
Thu Sep 1 01:56:17 UTC 2005


 
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In a message dated 08/31/2005 7:53:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
dpharris at telus.net writes:

Dean_Swan at Mitel.COM wrote:

>
> Alan Lovejoy wrote on  Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:07:00 -0700
> > Jecel>I don't understand - Sun  wasn't able to utterly kill Self in 1995
> > > because they *had*  previously released it all as open source.
>
> Well, Sun has  demonstrated the ability to kill things quite dead. 
>  Remember  NeWS?  Such a shame.  So Gosling went off and tried to 
>  recreate the glory of NeWS in Oak (becomes Java).   Sigh....
>
>          -Dean
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I'd have to say he missed the mark by quite a wide margin :-(
I  bought a second-hand Sun 3/60 so I could run  NeWS....

David







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