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From: ergo@netcom.COM (Isaac Rabinovitch)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: ST/V for Windows
Message-ID: <24146@netcom.COM>
Date: 15 Feb 91 06:27:22 GMT
References: <6448@taylord>
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In <6448@taylord> taylord@Software.Mitel.COM (Don Taylor) writes:


>The only reply that I received to my enquiry about ST/V for Windows
>leads me to conclude that VERY few people have seen it yet.  Sigh... I
>guess I will have to buy it sight unseen.
True, but Digitalk has a 30-day return policy.

>Copy of reply follows: (because the guy who sent it to me is a beta
>tester I have deleted his attribution).

> 
>You don't need the SDK. Although since you can interface to SDK tools, you
>might want it later.

The new Borland product might be a cheaper (and maybe better)
alternative.  Also, many other language publishers are working on
Windows products.
> 
> 
>Their manuals are always production quality (in my experience)
They are pretty good, but I wish they'd use en-dashes in their source
code examples.
> 
>
>. Support for DDE between applications in Windows is excellent.
Indeed, when I saw it, they were using a Smalltalk-to-Word link that
let them use Word in place of the Smalltalk System Transcript.
Supposedly, one can replace WordBasic with Smalltalk as a Word
macro language!
>Window paradigm is much better than 286 MPD.
When I asked about compatibility with V/286 and V/Mac, they said the
one problem would be that they'ved abandoned the MPD paradigm for a
Windows/PM paradigm.  Fine with me:  I never could master the MPD
approach to user interfacing.


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