Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!metro!news From: objtch@extro.ucc.su.oz.au (Peter Goodall) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc Subject: Re: IBM and Digitalk's Smalltalk /VPM Keywords: Smalltalk Message-ID: Date: 4 Dec 90 09:41:02 GMT References: <1990Nov21.174936.16826@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> Sender: news@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (news) Distribution: comp Organization: Uni Computing Service, Uni of Sydney, Australia Lines: 41 Nntp-Posting-Host: extro.ucc.su.oz.au ulnie@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Ulf Niesar) writes: ..... stuff deleted >** end of reprint from a press release issued by IBM on October, 15 1990. ** >** taken from Scoop newsletter Vol.3 No.4, 1990 (by Digitalk) ** >I think that this annoncement makes quite clear, that we will see Smalltalk/V >in the full range of product development within SAA. We will see if it intendedto be a tool for rapid prototyping only (very interesting is Anderson's >statement concerning integration of Smalltalk into AD/Cycle, IBM's strategic >CASE system !), or maybe as a new SAA programming language (Andersom says that >they willwork _together with IBM_ on visual programming tools). >Is anybody out there who has some more informations ?? >Ulf > I was at the Pacific Tools'90 coference last week. A person very likely to know said that IBM was giving a demo of some AD/Cycle stuff nad the system crashed in the middle of the demo. They restarted and it became obvious that the system was written in Smalltalk. (Note crashing is not a feature of Smalltalk) They (IBM) also seem to be reccomending Smalltlak/VPM for developing cooperative processing applications. A lot of IBM's user-interface work is also definitely being done in Smalltlak/VPM. SOme of it is being replaced by C in the production versions. I would love to know details of which parts and why! ---------------------------- Peter Goodall Smalltalk Systems Consultant ObjecTech P/L 162 Burns Bay Rd, LANE COVE , NSW, AUSTRALIA objtch@extro.ucc.su.oz.au