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For one, it cost a lot of money so it had a limited audience. Afaik, VisualStudio drew a lot of inspiration from it, which propagated outwards to the Java IDEs.
by locopati 15y ago
For one, it cost a lot of money so it had a limited audience. Afaik, VisualStudio drew a lot of inspiration from it, which propagated outwards to the Java IDEs.
- ConstantineXVI 15y agoFWIW, Visual_Age_ (not to be confused with VS), the ancestor to Eclipse, was originally Smalltalk based before being rewritten in Java.
- technomancy 15y agoAlso working in terms of an image instead of files freaks people out. It isolates you from all the file-centric tooling of unix.
- AlexFromBelgium 15y agoThx for the responses. I just watched "What Killed Smalltalk Could Kill Ruby, Too" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX3iRjKj7C0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX3iRjKj7C0 pretty interesting