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It didn't used to be this bad: 1 - I used to have a commercial app framework in smalltalk. You could take a fresh Digitalk smalltalk system (or even one with
by jhancock 17y ago
It didn't used to be this bad:
1 - I used to have a commercial app framework in smalltalk. You could take a fresh Digitalk smalltalk system (or even one with lots of mods as long as there were no namespace conflicts) and "file-in" my app framework code and all was well. The tools of that day allowed you to "file-out" the code to a plain text file(s) or save it in object repos with revision history.
2 - Porting between the two major vendors of the day, Digitalk and ParcPlace, was trivial if you were a solid smalltalk programer.
For the last 10 years, I've on and off tried to use smalltalk again, but the tool sets are horrid compared to what they used to be. A 1994 Digitalk smalltalk was a great toolset. Maybe in a few years, Pharo will be on par with what we had then.