Frameworks wars and MADACON

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4 total messages Started by Alger, Jeff,VCA Thu, 24 Dec 1992 20:44

#20

Author: Alger, Jeff,VCA
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 20:44

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Fellow OOPers,
 
This is getting pretty confusing: Bedrock, Component Workshop, Dylan, OOPC,
Camelot, Galaxy, CLOS, Smalltalk (the language that refuses to die!), and who
knows how many others?  A year ago, choosing a framework was easy.  A year or
two from now it may be easy again, since these products cannot each keep a
large enough market share to prosper.  But right now it's sheer chaos.  Which
leads to the following idea: with the MADA conference coming up in February,
how about an evening session devoted to emerging frameworks and development
environments?  Get as many vendors as possible on the stage at the same time
and give them a set of specific topics to address so that it doesn't become a
group sales pitch.  Make sure there is plenty of time for Q&A.  Invite the
press (e.g., JOOP and Object Magazine).  I can't think of any way for MADA to
better serve the interests of its members this year, nor a better forum for
vendors to receive critical feedback about how their products stack up from one
of the most literate and business-saavy OOP groups in the industry.
 
If this is already being done, please excuse the link.  If not, count me a
volunteer to help bring it about.
 
With best holiday wishes to all,
Jeff Alger
SBM International

Galaxy?

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Author: Mark Lanett
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 06:08

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ALGER@AppleLink.Apple.COM (Alger, Jeff,VCA) writes:

>Fellow OOPers,
> 
>This is getting pretty confusing: Bedrock, Component Workshop, Dylan, OOPC,
>Camelot, Galaxy, CLOS, Smalltalk (the language that refuses to die!), and who

Hmmm. New-framework-of-the-week month it seems. What's Galaxy?

Re: Galaxy?

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Author: Kent Sandvik
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 00:07

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In article <1992Dec27.060847.7998@netcom.com>, knee@netcom.com (Mark
Lanett) wrote:
> 
> ALGER@AppleLink.Apple.COM (Alger, Jeff,VCA) writes:
> 
> >Fellow OOPers,
> > 
> >This is getting pretty confusing: Bedrock, Component Workshop, Dylan, OOPC,
> >Camelot, Galaxy, CLOS, Smalltalk (the language that refuses to die!), and who
> 
> Hmmm. New-framework-of-the-week month it seems. What's Galaxy?

Hehehe, and what about the Mac port of Garnet? And what about other
interesting announcements at next year's MADACon? I agree, this will
become a year of frameworks wars, and that's good because competition
will (as evolution :-)) produce better species, sorry, frameworks.

Cheers,
Kent
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Re: Galaxy?

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Author: Larry Rosenstein
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 18:00

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In article <1992Dec27.060847.7998@netcom.com>, knee@netcom.com (Mark
Lanett) wrote:
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> Hmmm. New-framework-of-the-week month it seems. What's Galaxy?

The Jan 93 issue of Dr Dobbs Journal has an ad for this.

It's distributed by a company called Visix.  It mentions portability but
only to UNIX, Windows, OS/2, and NT (the Mac isn't mentioned).  It doesn't
say exactly what it does, except they mention a bunch of buzzwords
("Object-Oriented, Network Independent, Extensible, ...).  It sounds like a
development environment with some kind of OO framework.

It says you can send mail to galaxy@visix.com for more info.

Larry Rosenstein
Taligent, Inc.

lsr@taligent.com

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