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> In article <31684F33.2528@ibm.net>, Ernie Wright <javaguy@ibm.net> wrote:

> But Smalltalk has really had more than 24 years under it's belt, and has
> only really been widely available for less than half of that time.  It had
> a chance to mature and become coherent and mature in a nurturing
> environment before it had to face the cold cruel world.

If my Smalltalk history books are correct Smalltalk-72 consisted of
some lines of BASIC code. So I think you are a bit exaggerating here.
However, I agree that Smalltalk is the much more evolved system. 

On the other hand Java has received much more industry attention so
far than Smalltalk did in its infancy. I like the Java approach being
in between Smaltalk and C++. This is what is needed! Tired of writing
a little app in Smalltalk which results in a 2 MB EXE-file that takes
several minutes to start up? Tired of edit-compile-link-test-degub
cycle in C++?

/Olli

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