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> … shipping smalltalk applications generally means … Is that what Edward Diego meant? Is Hello world what "smalltalk applications" generally means?

• epsilon_greedy 7y ago
  That is what I took "distributable unit" to mean, yes. Perhaps it's not fair to say that this is true for "hello world" as you've shown in your Visual Works example and jolmg has shown with GST.
  • igouy 7y ago
    > not fair That's not the issue. Not sensible is the issue. What relevance does the distributable size of hello world have when the goal is to develop enterprise scale systems?