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And this is one of the reasons Smalltalk did not take off in the 90s. All the useful versions priced themselves for the enterprise or took over the ones tuned f
by pasc1878 4y ago
And this is one of the reasons Smalltalk did not take off in the 90s. All the useful versions priced themselves for the enterprise or took over the ones tuned for Windows.
See Gilad Bracha's view on why Smalltalk did not take off https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2020/05/bits-of-history-words-of-advice.html https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2020/05/bits-of-history-words-o... for more complete view.
- pjmlp 4y agoFrom my point of view, having IBM fully pivot from Smalltalk into Java was one of the biggest reasons, and the millions that Sun pumped into having the JDK available as free beer. On OS/2, SOM (much better COM like API), also had support for Smalltalk besides C and C++, effectively giving Smalltalk a role in OS/2, similar to VB and later .NET on Windows.
- cabalamat 4y agoSmalltalk/V from the late 1980s was quite cheap, as I recall.
- igouy 4y agoFor example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32441206 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32441206
- pasc1878 4y agoYes that was the one I used and was the one that I meant by saying "took over the ones tuned for Windows." I think ParcPlace took it over and replaced it by the expensive one which was OS independent and not tuned to Windows.
- pulse7 4y agoIn 1995 Digitalk already charged a few thousands bucks for VisualSmalltalk...
- igouy 4y agoPreviously "The Rise and Fall of Commercial Smalltalk (2020)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29223880 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29223880