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From: dg@sisyphus.sybase.com (David Gould)
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Subject: Re: Small Talk from DigiTalk
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Date: 7 Oct 89 21:17:44 GMT
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In article <24996.252C4CA5@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Adam.Stein@f347.n107.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Stein) writes:
>Anyone use Small Talk from DigiTalk for the Mac. I have never used a Small 
>Talk system before but am interested and don't know anything about the
>different Small Talks.Does it compile or is it interpreted. How does it
>compare to SuperCard or Object Pascal?
>Thanks,
>Adam Stein

I have had Smalltalk/V on my mac for about 9 months, and I still think it is
the best program I ever bought.  All commercial smalltalks compile down to
bytecodes which are then interpreted.  Assuming SuperCard is like HyperCard,
Smalltalk is very different.  It doesn't do as much of the work for you, but
it doesn't get in your way like they do.  For example, in smalltalk, you can
create your own new kinds of objects (classes), so you aren't just stuck with
buttons and cards and such.  It is also a much cleaner language syntactically.
Object Pascal, and the various object C's are hybrid languages which have some
but not all the benefits and costs of being object oriented.  As with all half
measures, they are not as nice as the real thing.
				try it, you'll like it,
				dg


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