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From: genbrug@iesd.uucp (Dat hovedfag genbrug)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: What is ST-80?
Message-ID: <1383@iesd.uucp>
Date: 22 Feb 89 08:49:11 GMT
Reply-To: genbrug@iesd.dk (Dat hovedfag genbrug)
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Aalborg University, Denmark
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Is ST-80 more than an advanced environment to make toys with? - Apparantly not.

I see the ST-80 system as a VERY POWERFULL environment for the development of
prototypes, but when it comes to development of commercial products running
OUTSIDE the ST-80 environment I find it problematic.

In "old" environments with languages like C, Pascal or Cobol I find the concept
of 'a program' very clear (it starts with a 'begin' and ends with a 'end'), but
in respect to ST-80 programs I find the concepts of 'program' very fuzzy (ST-80
programs are typically built up by many objects comming from different class-
hierachiess having methods that again uses objects from other classhierachies 
and so on) because it is hard to distinguish what is THE program and what 
is not.

MY QUESTION IS: Does there exist tools to transform programs in the ST-80
environment to executable programs that can run outside the ST-80 environment, 
and that does not exist of more than the necessary parts of the classes from 
the ST-80 system? e.g like 'Applications generators' in LISP (the discussion 
above, about ST-80 programs contra "ordinary" programs causes me to think 
that such a tool isn't a simple one).

Johnny Thomsen, genbrug@iesd.dk,  {...}!mcvax!diku!iesd!genbrug
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