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I was probably using visual works at the time I used it (briefly). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualWorks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualWorks I basica

I was probably using visual works at the time I used it (briefly). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualWorks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualWorks I basically never saw any source files. According to wikipedia, you could export them though. But it's a long time ago and I never did much with smalltalk. I was still in university and this was part of our object oriented programming course. A file that is easy to read and index sounds like a database to me. Not an sql database obviously.

bitwize 4y ago
VisualWorks was probably way different. But I've heard "Smalltalk had no source files, it stored all its program source in the image" enough times in a variety of contexts that I felt the need to address it.
- pjmlp 4y ago
  The fact that the files aren't meant to be hand edited already makes it quite clear how it goes, not every kind of image file is a binary blob. That is why there are export/import tools.
- igouy 4y ago
  VisualWorks was the same https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32432411 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32432411 except when it was using ENVY/Developer https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mastering_ENVY_Developer/ld6E19QIMo4C?hl=en&gbpv=1 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mastering_ENVY_Develope... Also my guess is that with Gemstone the code was in the database (but I am just guessing). https://gemtalksystems.com/products/gs64/ https://gemtalksystems.com/products/gs64/