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From: dcn@ihuxl.UUCP (Dave Newkirk)
Newsgroups: net.lang.st80
Subject: Smalltalk Applications
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Date: Mon, 23-Jul-84 09:39:56 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 23 09:39:56 1984
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Smalltalk is an applications development environment, so a good question would
be "what applications does Smalltalk do well?"  My impression, from a
presentation by Xerox, is that Smalltalk is roughly equivalent in power to
Interlisp-D, and is now being used for the same types of jobs.  This includes
rapid prototyping, artificial intelligence, expert systems, simulation, and
improved user interfaces.  I think Smalltalk has some advantages over Interlisp
due to its different language structure and the predefined objects, which make
it easier to get started.  New applications will probably emerge as Smalltalk
environment leaves the ivory towers of Xerox.
					Dave Newkirk, ihnp4!ihuxl!dcn