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> Smalltalk environments often were priced where only enterprises could pay for them There were also packages available for less than 100$. There were even fre
by Rochus 6y ago
> Smalltalk environments often were priced where only enterprises could pay for them
There were also packages available for less than 100$. There were even free ST compilers.
- mhd 6y agoSure, but where those the advanced environments that were cancelled by people hopping on the Linux/C/etc bandwagon? I don't think that the argument goes with more funding Little Smalltalk would've been our software savior. There sure was a lot of abandoned programming environments, but it was usually the enterprised that fathered them that killed it. NeWs was more interesting than pretty much all of its successors. And I'm sure the Lisp Machine or Oberon grognards are willing to chime in, too. Everything being boring AF, both on the hardware and software side, certainly enabled Linux to succeed. It's a lot easier to compete if the state of the art is libc and X11.