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From: rkr@june.cs.washington.edu (Rajendra K. Raj)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Any large Smalltalk applications?
Keywords: software reuse, inheritance
Message-ID: <8012@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 27 Apr 89 00:01:28 GMT
Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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I am doing some work in quantifying the use of inheritance as a technique
for software reuse, that is, I am measuring how things such as classes and
methods actually get used and reused. To make more sense out of my
measurements, I need some *real data*, that is, I need to get hold of large
applications written in Smalltalk.

The large applications I have already gotten hold of are:

  (a) the Smalltalk system itself,
  (b) Alan Borning's ThingLab, and
  (c) Rob Duisberg's Animus.

Does anybody know of any other public domain Smalltalk application that I
could use? Or does anyone have any major applications that they could
release for me to measure reuse in? I would appreciate getting pointers to
such software. Yes, I'll collect and post a summary of the relevant public
domain software.

If anyone has already done such measurements or is in the process of doing
them, I would also like to hear from them.

When I get done with my measurements and finish my paper, I'll mail copies
of it to those of you who may be interested in it.

Thanks.

  - R. K. Raj
     
    EMail:  rkr@june.cs.washington.edu,     rkr@uw-june.UUCP
    Post:   Department of Computer Science, FR-35
            University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195
    Phone:  (206) 543-9348