notdeadSTer

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   by notdeadSTer 11y ago

   > I suspect it was performance, cruft, and aesthetics that killed it more than price. After all, expensive things that get popular generally become cheaper (or have cheaper versions released). I think performance was a huge problem (I d
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   by notdeadSTer 11y ago

   That's nice of you to say, but I think Smalltalk will probably remain unpopular because it's too different (image-based environment), too powerful (in the Lisp sense, where you can modify core parts of the system while it's r
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   by notdeadSTer 11y ago

   You're correct; a product line merger was attempted but failed, so VSE was ultimately just killed off.
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   by notdeadSTer 11y ago

   Notice ParcPlace's offering is more than 7x that of MS or Borland. I believe both it and Digitalk's competitively-priced alternative were merged into a single product after PP and Digitalk merged.
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   by notdeadSTer 11y ago

   I generally like Uncle Bob, but he isn't a Smalltalker and didn't demonstrate any insight into Smalltalk's unpopularity in that talk. Worse, this is hardly the first or only time a prominent Rubyist ignorant of Smalltalk has