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From: sehyo@netcom.com (Sehyo Chang)
Subject: Re: JAVA explosion = SELF implosion ?
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Thierry Thelliez (tgt@lanl.gov) wrote:
: What happenned to SELF ?

: I thought it was a promissing language trying to have an
: efficient implementation of highly dynamic language a la
: Smalltalk.

: Furthermore, I thought that SELF was developped at SUN and
: that a version 4.0 was already available.

: Did they miss the Web train ? Does JAVA quick success affect
: SELF ? Is SELF still alive ? (Their Web site has not been
: updated since Sep 95) Why SUN has not pushed SELF instead of
: JAVA ?
 
I don't think SELF was ever intended to be production environment but
as research vehicle to explore prototype based object systems. In order
to be more popular, it needed to be "downsized" to run on win95,mac,etc.
SELF is ahead of it's time as smalltalk was for long time..

-- sehyo
