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From: glwilli@beavis561102 (Glenn Williams)
Subject: Re: SmallTalk vs C++ Challenge! 8/17/95 New York City
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In article <412fh0$7ps@ornews.intel.com>, "Patrick D. Logan" <patrick_d_logan@ccm.jf.intel.com> writes:
> >A question I've asked the Smalltalk vendors and Smalltalk programmers is how
> >many stand-alone, shrink-wrapped, on-the-self software packages are being 
> >written in Smalltalk? How many commercial PC programs are out there written in
> >Smalltalk? So far the answer is very few. If anyone knows of one, let me know.
> 
> If you want to use Smalltalk for a shrink-wrapped app, you can. If you want to use
> it to create a small text editor, then the resulting app will not be proportionately
> small. But if your shrink-wrapped app is more of a kitchen-sink app, like a design
> automation tool: CAD, CAE, CASE, desktop publishing, that will require a lot of
> resources in *any* language, then you will amortize the initial size of the Smalltalk
> environment and leverage the productivity of the language and environment in
> organizing such a large amount of functionality.
> 

I realize you can use Smalltalk, however, it does not seem as though many 
commercial applications, such as the ones mentioned above, are developed using
it. 

What all this says to me is, wait for the hardware to catch up with the
language. More powerful machines will make Smalltalk a commercially viable
option. All languages ( except C, maybe ) have suffered through this.

glenn

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