Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!metro!ipso!runxtsa!timm From: timm@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Tim Menzies) Newsgroups: comp.object Subject: Re: Teaching an Object-Oriented Programming Course - Need Your Help Message-ID: <2279@runxtsa.runx.oz.au> Date: 21 Sep 90 08:00:29 GMT References: <3090@unocss.unomaha.edu> Organization: RUNX Unix Timeshare. Sydney, Australia. Lines: 23 There's been some talk in this group about lack of Smalltalk applications. Whatever the past situation has been, I'd expect to see more Smalltalk/V applications in the near future. Smalltalk/V PM and the soon-to-be-released Smalltalk V/ Windows are tools that let a programmer make sense of the nightmaring horror that is Windows 3 and the presentation manager. As evidence of this, consider this: IBM has designated Smalltalk V/PM as a "strategic internal product". In general, as more and more users fall in love with Mac-style interfaces, and more and more change requests emerege that amount to "make it look like a Mac please", programmers will have to use high-productivity tools to manage GUIs. Enter Smalltalk V/PM and Windows 3.0. As far as the IBM-micro world goes, I don;t know anything that beats it. But I shouldn't get carried away. The big question in my mind is "will Smalltalk V/Windows code be compatiable with Smalltalk V/PM code?". If not, boo-hiss. -- _--_|\ Tim Menzies (timm@runxtsa.oz) #include usual.disclaimer / \ HiSoft Expert Systems Group, "Its amazing how much \_.--._/ 2-6 Orion Rd Lane Cove, NSW, 2066 'mature wisdom' resembles v 02 9297729(voice),61 2 4280200(fax) being 'too tired'."