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From: shap@sfsup.UUCP (J.S.Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac Smalltalk from Apple
Message-ID: <2525@sfsup.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 87 03:52:20 GMT
References: <323@uhmanoa.UUCP> <2630@mmintl.UUCP> <7079@apple.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T-IS, Summit N.J. USA
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Summary: Suggest a compatibility library

In article <7079@apple.UUCP>, lsr@apple.UUCP writes:
> 
> The issue of porting an application, however, involves the available system
> classes as well as the language.  I would imagine that an application
> written in Parc Place Smalltalk would make use of MVC, and therefore would
> require some changes before it would run in Macintosh Smalltalk.  Macintosh
> Smalltalk will not contain any of the MVC classes.
> 
> -- 
> Larry Rosenstein
> 
Larry, has anyone considered developing some sort of portability
library to make all of this stuff come out in the wash?
I don't know anything about Smalltalk, (a few weeks hacking
doesn't count), but it would seem to me that this should
be possible. Think you might suggest it as feedback from
someone out in the Usenet community?

Jon Shapiro
AT&T Information Systems