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Jim Menard wrote:
That makes sense. In fact, I suspected the answer had to do with late binding. That's why Nextstep and Objective-C was IMHO the best development environment. (Smalltalk, at least Squeak, UI development is still a bit rough but I can see the potential for the same ease-of-development).
Late binding benefits probably aren't just limited to GUI development (although it's an obvious win there). I suppose it's an advantage whenever you have to work with larger software tool-kits.
With Objective-C (see http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/lang/objc/), which is ST-derived, you have a little bit better integration with the operating system, at least in my experience, but at some expense of malleability (something like Squeak is 100% smalltalk so it's very flexible!).
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