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From: nvi@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Charles C. Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Interface Builders?
Message-ID: <6326@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 7 Dec 90 16:11:10 GMT
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> >Why is the Smalltalk-80 world obsessed by big prices. I'm sure
> >you would sell 100 times as many for $350.00.

> Perhaps the solution is to get more people using Smalltalk-80,
> but the problem is that the prices are too high.

For me, the main drawback to Smalltalk is closed nature of the system.
It's not possible to produce "double-clickable" applications on the
Mac in either V/Mac or ST-80 (does V/PM solve this?).  Why should
anyone write nifty little programs when he can share them only with
others who invest in Smalltalk?  It's going on 10 years since the 1981
August Byte, and Smalltalk is *just beginning* to come out of its
shell a little bit (V/PM and ParcPlace's runtime).

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