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From: jahonen@sisu.lut.fi (Jarmo Ahonen)
Subject: Re: Digitalk Visual Smalltalk
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Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 07:54:04 GMT
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In <787838800marten.marten@feki.toppoint.de>, marten@feki.toppoint.de (Marten Feldtmann) writes:
>In article <3d0h06$dq4@News1.mcs.com> nigas@mcs.com (Craig Hairrell) writes:
>>I bought Digitalk ST/V Win16 last fall just to get my feet wet with
>>object-oriented development.  It taught me a few concepts, but since
>>I develop primarily business apps, the lack of any native db support
>>and screen painter killed my interest in developing any more w/
>>ST/V.  Now I've received an offer for Visual ST Win/32 for $395.  I
>>understand it's really ST/V Win32 + Parts Workbench.
>>
>>Should I buy it?  Am I likely to find any native db support or a 
>>decent screen painter?  Will I be pursuaded to dump Gupta SQLWindows
>>in favor of ST?  Is there another ST development tool I should consider
>>instead that would be competitively priced?
>
> The main problem will be a Report-Generator ... though I've heard, that
>in the Windows-version (of 3.0) a Report-Generator is included.
>
> On the other hand (if Digitalk is not making too many stupid things
>with their new release .. perhaps buggy etc ..) the stuff should be
>worth the money.
>
> I decided at once to make this update though I'm not that satisfied
>with the Digitalk product but it's also not that easy to leave a
>development platform.

 Yeah, me too.

 Digitalk's earlier versions have been fairly poorly integrated into
 the host OS. But I have heard that that is changing with the version 3.0,
 but I do not know yet.

 But we'll see soon (I suppose that DT has started shipping the upgrade).

 Best regards,

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