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From: kentb@argosy.UUCP (Kent Beck)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Objectworks for Smalltalk-80
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Date: 26 Feb 90 19:36:36 GMT
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This is in response to someone who said that Digitalk Smalltalk was not
"real".  Both Digitalk and ParcPlace's versions of Smalltalk are "real"
in the sense that both support the same style of programming, have many
functionally equivalent tools, and use the same source language.  They
are available on different platforms, with different pricing strategies,
and different target audiences.  To say that one is more real than the
other is to ignore the intentional differences between the products.

Kent