Steve Dekorte wrote:
Microsoft And Disney Conclude Agreement To License Technology For Smalltalk
So why we don't see real press releases like this?
Perhaps one reason is that Squeak is free and Microsoft could use it without licensing it if they wanted to? I am sure that a great negotiator like Bill Gates would not fail to note this.
I liked the joke a lot, even though it didn't turn out very funny for Andres. A few years ago, a major magazine in Brazil (called "Veja") published an article about how scientists combined genes from a tomato and a cow. The reporter had been looking through back issues of "New Scientist" and got excited when he came across this news. He failed to note that it was the April issue and that the scientists who were to cause a fast food revolution were doctors McDonald and Wendy. So Veja spent the time and money to publish this, only to be embarrassed when the letters from more attentive readers started coming in. They are more careful now - live and learn...
About the people who are trading Smalltalk for Java - while I am not one of them, I can't entirely avoid Java in my projects. The DAVIC standard for settop boxes requires it, as does the upcoming MPEG-4 standard and any practical used of VRML. Can't we do anything about this? It will soon be too late.
-- Jecel
About the people who are trading Smalltalk for Java - while I am not one of them, I can't entirely avoid Java in my projects. The DAVIC standard for settop boxes requires it, as does the upcoming MPEG-4 standard and any practical used of VRML. Can't we do anything about this? It will soon be too late.
The answer is probably: If you can't beat them, buy them! Smalltalk/X has shown how this is working. Integrate Java in your Smalltalk environment such that you can do both - using Java where it's necessary and Smalltalk for the significant stuff. This is even more true for Squeak where (given that somebody is interested in doing such a thing) you can immediately spread this to any number of platforms. And the best of all: Due to Squeaks licensing all the neat little things you do with the Interpreter for this have to be publicly available ;-)
Andreas
The answer is probably: If you can't beat them, buy them! Smalltalk/X has shown how this is working. Integrate Java in your Smalltalk environment such that you can do both - using Java where it's necessary and Smalltalk for the significant stuff.
Apple/NeXT is doing something similiar with OpenStep/YellowBox. They created a bridge so objects in both languages(Objective-C and Java) can talk to objects in the other as if all were in the same language.
So projects can start out using Java for trademag/hype compliance(so they can feel safe) and then move objects into Objective-C when they find Java is too slow or limited(so they can get real work done).
Steve
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