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From: vlad@world2u.com (Vlastimil Adamovsky)
Subject: Re: Qbasic Problem
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Alan Lovejoy <alovejoy@concentric.net> wrote:


>However, my advice to "use Smalltalk" (as quoted above) is not meant as an
>absolute maxim.  Smalltalk is not the best choice in all cases.  Perhaps yours
>is one of them--although I see no reason that Smalltalk would not serve 
>excellently as a scripting language for most programs, including a word processor.
>Perhaps now that the Squeak implementation with full VM source code is available,
>vendors may actually start embedding Smalltalk into their products for use as a
>scripting language.  

Squeak is an interesting piece of software.  It offers many ideas about how to
build things better. I really hope it will be mo widespread, after when it get
stabilized.

 Vlastimil Adamovsky
 ** C++ and Smalltalk consultant **
 * http://www.stepweb.com *

