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In article <31CC4ABE.6DDE@individual.com>, jeff.sutherland@individual.com says...
>
>http://www.tiac.net/users/jsuth/smallman.html
>
>The Smalltalk Manifesto: Avoiding RoadKill on the InfoBahn
>
>If you want Smalltalk to survive or build a better Java, you better read 
>this.

I applaud the sentiments expressed in this Manifesto, that the Smalltalk
development community should join forces with Java, rather than fight
against it. By joining forces, the Java community will get the benifits
of decades of top-notch object-oriented programming, and Smalltalk will
get the benifits of running anywhere and doing anything Java can. If
this doesn't happen, Java will be the lesser for it, but it will still
probably crush what is left of Smalltalk for all practical purposes.
That would be a true shame.

I also suggest that anyone who is fond of Perl read this, and think 
about it. Java servlets can do just about anything a CGI script can
do, only much faster since it doesn't need to spawn a sub-process.
RMI provides an even more powerful and abstract substitute for CGI.
Perl is the premire regexp language of today, but there are regexp
libraries for Java appearing every day of ever-increasing sophistication.
An implementation of Perl that runs inside a JVM would satisfy
a powerful need in the Java community today, but if it doesn't
show up soon something else will take it's place.

>Regards,
>-- 
>Jeff Sutherland 
>VP Product Development, Individual, Inc.
>mailto:jeff.sutherland@individual.com 
>http://www.tiac.net/users/jsuth/
>
>"Surf first and ask questions later!"

-Eugene

