Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!metro!extro!objtch From: objtch@extro.ucc.su.oz.au (Peter Goodall) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer Subject: Re: Actor vs. Smalltalk results Message-ID: Date: 17 Apr 91 00:57:56 GMT References: <13034@ucrmath.ucr.edu> Sender: news@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia Lines: 54 Nntp-Posting-Host: extro.ucc.su.oz.au bmyers@dimaggio.ucr.edu (brian myers) writes: >Prolog/V is part of Digitalk's Smalltalk/V. I was hoping to hear from >Digitalk but never did. By the way, I understand Arity has their prolog >running with windows now via a C interpreter or something. >Appearantly Smalltalk doesn't allow direct SDK calls like Actor, even >though Actor doesn't implement the full set of SDK call. >To generate .EXEs in Smalltalk you can store the virtual image as a >resource in the .EXE file. This sounds rather cumbersome but not quite >as bad as Actor's two seperate files. >Parc Place does charge royalties. I can't remember right now weather >Actor does or not (I don't think they do). >More info can be found on PP Smalltalk at email info@parcplace.com. > The other person who responded (I believe) was speaking >specifically about Digitalk's ST when he stated that a stand alone >.EXE file can't be created. He mentioned one other thing too, but I >can't remember what it was and I lost his message. Obviously can't >refer to his email address either. Damn. I will try to give some info on Digitalk's Smalltalk/V Windows. Runs in protected and enhanced mode, has full access to any old code API you like. Bigger class library than Actor, and I believe you have source to more of the system. Creates an exe file, no royalties on distribution. There are a set of run-time DLLs that are disrtibutable free, and a set of dwevelopment Dlls that aren't. I'ts good stuff and very fast. Sonn Acumen will have a interactive GUI builder for this version of Smalltalk. Hope this is some help, if anyone wants specific answers, just ask. BTW Digitalk isn't on INTERNET but has forums on Compuserve and Bix. ---------------------------- Peter Goodall Smalltalk Systems Consultant ObjecTech P/L 162 Burns Bay Rd, LANE COVE , NSW, AUSTRALIA objtch@extro.ucc.su.oz.au -- Peter Goodall | INTERNET: