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1999a: SmallTalk
(by David Kramer; January 20, 1999)
Meeting Notes - Smalltalk, Wed 20 Jan 1999
Taken by David Kramer
BLU 01/20/99 4-370 -------------------------------------------------- SMALLTALK SIMPLE SYNTAX 5 RESERVE WORDS EXTENSIVE CLASS LIB INTERACTIVE, ITERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INCREMENTALLY COMPILED ON METHOD LEVEL DOES EVERYTHING JAVA DOES BUT BETTER ANSI X3J20 -------------------------------------------------- OBJECTSHARE CORP VISUALWORKS JAMES ROBERTSON FORMED FROM PARCPLACE (FROM XEROX PARC) AND DIGITALK? LARGE APPS, FORTUNE 100 BINARY PORTABLILITY, NOT SOURCE LEVEL DB(ORA/SY/ODBC) DLL&C CORBA COM PROFILING HELPS WWW JAVA SRC CODE CONTROL GEOMAPPING DYNAMIC LOAD CLASS LIBS LIKE JAVA UI PAINTER DB INTERFACE FULL COMPILER CHAMELEON LOOK AND FEEL- MAKE THE APP LOOK LIKE ANY UI PARCEL=CLASS LIB,BUT CAN BE SMALLER MODULARITY ANY CLASS CAN BE OVERRIDDEN VISUALWAVE- DEPLOY TO THE WEB HTML JAVASCRIPT FRAMES AUTO GENERATED SESSION STATE SAVED AUTOMATICALLLY CORBA COM CORBA CONNECTIVITY VERY EASY. BIND+PUBLISH/UNBIND C <--> SMALLTALK ORACLE OBJECT MAPPING TO TABLES, ETC WINXX SOLARIS HP AIX PMAC DEC SGI LINUX(GLIBC2) CLASSES ARE OBJECTS, YOU CAN USE METHODS TO FIND OUT LOTS ABOUT A CLASS YOU CAN REMOTE BROWSE/DEBUG/RUN CODE ON OTHER PLATFORM "THE ART AND SCIENCE OF SMALLTALK" AMAZON.COM AN OBJECT CAN NOTIFY OTHER METHODS ONCHANGE AUTOMATICALLY VM=640K FULL PACKAGE=16MB BASE IMAGE=4MB COMP.LANG.SMALLTALK
