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From: jans@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Jan Steinman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Re: Smalltalk-80, any recommendations?
Message-ID: <4922@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 89 01:20:48 GMT
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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<The ParcPlace version is the *real thing*, straight from Xerox, compatible 
with various books on Smalltalk, down to the structure of the class hierarchy.>

Don't count on it.  Since they own it, they feel free to change the spec.  Tek 
Smalltalk is actually more compatible with the Blue Book than PPS 2.4.

But of course, PPS is closer to the Blue Book than Smalltalk/V, which had to 
create the environment from scratch because PPS refuses to cooperate in 
standards movements.

Sigh.  Sour grapes.  I'll get off my soap box now.  Smalltalk will never get 
off the ground until there is a Gnu version of it.  (Listening, RKS?)

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