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From: rapp@lmr.mv.com (L. M. Rappaport)
Subject: Re: Smalltalk terminology - Object, Class, and Instance
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jsutherland@BIX.com (Jeff Sutherland) wrote:

>In Smalltalk, you can't do much.  However, in the MATISSE object database
>you can subclass Metaclass and change the structure of all the classes in
>the database automagically.  Classes are first class objects in Matisse. 
>When they change, all the instances change.  Pretty powerful feature.

That is really interesting.  With which languages does MATISSE work?
How unbelievably expensive  (smile) is it?  Thanks,

Larry
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