Re: [ajug-members]: So what _did_ happen to Smalltalk?

[Paul Philion <philion@acmerocket.com>]

Actually, NeXT used Objective-C. The entire operating system was written 
in it, as was the original WebObjects (based on NeXTStep, ported to 
other platforms).

The world would be a different place today if Objective-C had been 
generally adopted instead of C++. I always thought that Objective-C was 
much more elegant than C++, and AOP is built-in (using categories and 
the way "messages" are handled).

Objective-C was much like a "Smalltalk with C syntax", but in many ways 
different from Java (reference counting instead of garbage collection, etc.)

- Paul Philion

drbcpg wrote:
> Smalltalk came out out 15 years or more ago. I believe it was developed 
> at Xerox PARC maybe 20 years ago. I originally ran it on a PC. Job's 
> NEXT computer only used Smalltalk. I still have my Smalltalk manuals and 
> floppy disks to run on a PC. If I remember correctly, a Java programmer 
> should not have any major problems with Smalltalk.
> 
> I am traveling this week. When I return back to Atlanta I can look up 
> more detailed information in my computer books library. I think I have 
> manuals on almost every language, that had some serious following, for 
> the last  for the last 50 years.
> 
> David Black