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From: pieter@prls.UUCP (Pieter van der Meulen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Serious Applications (Re: What is ST-80?)
Keywords: Application Interactive Simulation
Message-ID: <19495@prls.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 89 19:02:14 GMT
References: <1383@iesd.uucp>
Reply-To: pieter@prls.UUCP (Pieter van der Meulen)
Organization: Philips Research Labs, Sunnyvale, California
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In article <1383@iesd.uucp> genbrug@iesd.dk (Dat hovedfag genbrug) writes:
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>Is ST-80 more than an advanced environment to make toys with? - Apparantly not

We used Smalltalk to prototype CAD tools for VLSI design, and do not
consider them toys. See the January/February issue of JOOP on "INSIST"
(an Interactive Simulator/Editor in SmallTalk).

>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 

I would be interested in that too, but I do not expect much savings by
stripping parts of the classes: the application (INSIST) is larger than
Smalltalk by itself (1.5Mbyte of source) and most (est. 70 %) of Smalltalk
is intensively used.

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