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From: rfenney@directnet.com (Robert J. Fenney)
Subject: Re: Smalltalk and the Internet
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Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 22:30:26 GMT
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In article <48quqf$470@news1.delphi.com>, jsutherland@BIX.com (Jeff
Sutherland) wrote:

> John Whitney wrote:
> >I hope Smalltalk vendors are really taking note of these important
> >industry changes.  Sun is obviously pushing C++ as the language syntax
> >for Java apps.  I contend that Smalltalk should also be considered.
> >
> >Anyone else agree/disagree with me, or have any additional thoughts?
> 
> The Webheads at the Boston Society for Digital Commerce think that Java is
> mainly useful for education and scientific simulations and will have little
> impact on business processing.  For business purposes they think that
> Smalltalk is a better cup of Java.  It is computationally complete, an ANSI
> standard language, supported by multiple vendors, and the virtual machines
> have been shaken down by 25 years of R&D.
> 
> Jeff Sutherland
> Mailto:jsutherland@vmark.com
> http://www.tiac.net/users/jsuth/
> (Object Studio 5.0, a better way to do C++ development!)

The benifit of Java is that I can generate an encapsulated object for lets
say a  bank account query and send it any system. The problem is that I
can't do the same for Smalltalk. I think Smalltalk is a better language and
development environment but QKS has the only version of an applet delivery
mechanism thatI have seen yet and if ALL of the venders can't get together
an agree on this type of real-time delivery mechanism I think we will just
have to make do with Java at least for the encapsulation of data on the
net. There are a couple of other issues but this is one of the most
important.

Robert
