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From: aland@servio.slc.com (Alan Darlington)
Subject: Commercial Smalltalk Apps (was Re: SmallTalk vs C++ Challenge)
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glwilli@beavis561102 (Glenn Williams) writes:
> In article <412fh0$7ps@ornews.intel.com>, "Patrick D. Logan" <patrick_d_logan@ccm.jf.intel.com> writes:
> > >A question I've asked the Smalltalk vendors and Smalltalk programmers is how
> > >many stand-alone, shrink-wrapped, on-the-self software packages are being 
> > >written in Smalltalk? How many commercial PC programs are out there written in
> > >Smalltalk? So far the answer is very few. If anyone knows of one, let me know.
<snip>

I missed the original posting (our internet connection has been flakey).

I worked for 5 years for a former employeer on a commercial financial
application written in Smalltalk, called WyCASH+ (r).  While not very
successful, the problems were in management and sales.  With most other
languages (such as C, C++, and COBOL), it would have long since died.
With Smalltalk, we could support our customers just enought with a small
team (me) that it is still in use by over a dozen Fortune 500 companies.

I currently work on another commercial Smalltalk product (GemStone
Smalltalk Interface) for VisualWorks, Visual Smalltalk, and Visual Age.

There is a lot going on that Mr. Logan should know about.  :-)

  Cheers,
  Alan
    (standard disclaimer)


