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Why didn't SmallTalk or some other options that were available at the time do better? Smalltalk was expensive (VisualAge, VisualWorks, for example) and wanted
by chromatic 12y ago
Why didn't SmallTalk or some other options that were available at the time do better?
Smalltalk was expensive (VisualAge, VisualWorks, for example) and wanted to own the world (image-based). With the web suddenly solving all deployment problems everywhere (at least, that was the rhetoric), paying thousands of dollars per developer for tools seemed silly.