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From: vlad@world2u.com (Vlastimil Adamovsky)
Subject: Re: Goodbye ParcPlace
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"Charles L. Robinson" <datec@wwa.com> wrote:

>Vlastimil Adamovsky wrote:
>> It is not expensive. But simply it doesn't work  very well with other  languages
>> and technologies. The exception is Smalltalk MT.
>> 

>What do you mean it doesn't work very well with other languages?
>We have integrated VSE with a Delphi front end (I'll send you details if

It is interesting. If you have an electronic copy of the details, I would be
interested to get it into my e-mail box. You can send it as an attachement.
Does Delphi have something, VSE doesn't have? 
I simply wrote "it it doesn't work very well with other languages". It does not 
mean that "it doesn't work at all".


>VSE supports native
>Windows widgets 

SmalltalkV/Windows always did.

>and speaks OLE (whether you consider OLE an advantage or
>not is left to the reader :-). DDE support has been in Digitalk
>"forever" (at least since version 2.0).

>IMHO the original author is/was correct. Unless he already *knew*
>Smalltalk, the per seat price for the small developer was more than he
>could pay for experimentation. For example, I bought Delphi when it
>first came out just to see what was up / no client was involved. I would
>never have considered doing that, at the time, with Smalltalk. Now that
>PPD has released SE,

I bought SmalltalkV/Windows ver.2.0 for $250 in 1993. I was also very
interested.

> we have more of a chance to pick up the needed
>critical mass of developer support; but, it may already be too late.

Unfortunately for Smalltalk.... It was a wonderful language. But it will come
back as a special language for building shell applications (frameworks) that
will be stuffed with OLE, ActiveX, JavaBeans etc... Smalltalk will be still
useful in that sense that the all useful work will be done by components,
contained in that shell.
Smalltalk will be a mere coordinator.

>It seems to me that foot print size is Smalltalk's biggest liability. 

You see, Smalltalk-coordinator will be ver tiny one.


>My bottom line is that Smalltalk is excellent when used in the right
>environment; however, there are low end environments where it doesn't
>make any sense.

Exactly.


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

