Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!cheddar.ucs.ubc.ca!panon From: panon@cheddar.ucs.ubc.ca (Paul-Andre Panon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: smalltalk (was Re: ADA on Amiga And Oxxi) Message-ID: <9523@ubc-cs.UUCP> Date: 12 Sep 90 02:57:54 GMT References: <6547@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1275@ul-cs.ulowell.edu> <1990Sep10.085801.24717@ida.liu.se> <1"83@ul-cs.ulowell.edu> Sender: news@cs.ubc.ca Reply-To: panon@cheddar.ucs.ubc.ca (Paul-Andre Panon) Distribution: na Organization: UBC Computing Centre, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 27 In article <1"83@ul-cs.ulowell.edu> jrichard@hawk.elowell.edu (John Richardson) writes: > >If Oxxi does go ahead with the Ada project and the compiler generates good >code (not to many Ada compilers do) then we may get some US govt. projects >that would otherwise go off into the Big Blue sky. > >By the way, I would really like to see a smalltalk for the Amiga too. > At the WINDOW conference last weekend here in Vancouver, I was fortunate enough to hear Adele Goldberg talk about "Technology of the future". In separate discussions after her talk, a friend of mine found out that ParcPlace Systems, the new company for which she is both President and CEO, will be developing a new compiled version of smalltalk (read efficient) for a number of target machines, which will use the native windowing systems of those machines. If you want it, you should probably start lobbying :-). My friend said this version sounded highly superior to those previously available. He's a smalltalk freak (he took the opportunity to get her to autograph his copy of the Dynabook report) so he may have known what he was talking about. :-) :-) -- panon@staff.ucs.ubc.ca or USERPAP1@UBCMTSG or ppanon@undergrad.cs.ubc.ca or USERPAP1@mtsg.ubc.ca Looking for a .signature? "We've already got one. It is ver-ry ni-sce!"