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From: lgmayka@sprynet.com (Lawrence G. Mayka)
Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better!
Date: 1997/01/26
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James O'Connor <joconnor@jmpstart.com> wrote:

>Joachim Durchholz wrote:

>> Tansel wrote:

>> > For starters, most Smalltalks and their tools are ridiculously
>> > expensive. This is equivalent for the vendors to shooting themselves in
>> > the foot, at the same time hitting us with the richocet.

>> Seems to be a general problem. Obviously this is one of the worst market
>> barriers for new languages: Market is small, so prices have to be high to
>> make a living from them, so market remains small.
>> On the other hand, this has saved us from countless language wars, so
>> maybe this vicious circle is a godsend...
>
>I think this is coming around.  PPD has Smalltalk Express.  I know both
>Dolphin (http://www.intuitive.co.uk) and SmalltalkMT
>(http://www.objectconnect.com) have very low priced Smalltalk products
>in the works.  Dolphin intriques me because of the Smalltalk Applet
>plug-in available.  SmalltalkMT looks cool because it produces very
>small, fast executables.

And now Cincom is offering ObjectStudio
(http://www.cincom.com/objectstudio) for less than $100.
ObjectStudio's apparent advantage is that of a full-featured, mature
development environment with full Win32 compliance at the lowest price
of any commercial implementation.


Lawrence G. Mayka
lgmayka@sprynet.com