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From: vlad@world2u.com (Vlastimil Adamovsky)
Subject: Re: Turkey days
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swerling@bway.net (Steven Swerling) wrote:


>>Smalltalk is a great language. One of the best. Its development environment is
>>one of the worst.

>I simply couldn't agree less with this. I grudgingly became mainly a
>Java programmer, it's not bad.  I have nothing to add to the Java vs.
>ST debate, except that I wish Java were ST, but it ain't.

>Incidentally, if you are like me and one of the things you love most
>about developing in ST is the incremental compile, 

Yes, it is great.

>and you are even
>more like me in that you do a lot of Java programming, then check out
>the beta for assymetric's Supercede java ide. 

I don't do Java, I use Smalltalk for my programming.

>The debugger has some
>things in common with ST too (supposedly you can role back the stack
>during execution after you changed a method, restarting a thread from
>the calling method). It also has a workspace-like entity where you can
>execute snippets of java code. It seems like these guys were
>influenced by smalltalk.

Yes, they simply are trying to make a "better Smalltalk". You see, 
there is always room for improvements.


>	http://www.asymetrix.com/nettools/scjava/





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

